adv. (UN-1 11; cf. prec.]
† 1. With ill fortune; unfortunately, unhappily.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 223. To Chestrefeld ilkon þei com vngratiously. Þe kyng did þam spie…, assailed þam in þe toun.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VI. 193. Eiþer of hem hadde hymself so ungraciousliche, þat me woste nevere wheþer of hem hadde worse spede.
1533. Frith, Judgem. upon Tracy, Wks. (1573), 81/2. And verely the iudgernent of this cause came out of season, & euer vngraciously vnto our Canonistes.
1578. Chr. Prayers, in Priv. Prayers (Parker Soc.), 454. We have learned of thee, how ungraciously [L. infeliciter] we be born of the first Adam.
† b. Injuriously, severely. Obs.
c. 1450. Holland, Howlat, 840. He cryid: ‘Allace,… I am vngraciously gorrit, baith guttis and gall!’
c. 1520. Skelton, Magnyf., 2270. Some rybbys of the motton be so ranke That they wyll fyre one vngracyously in the flanke.
† 2. Gracelessly: wickedly, wrongfully. Obs.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XV. 129. Þis þat with gyle was geten, vngraciouslich is spended.
a. 1400. Partonope, 6432. ‘Allas,’ þoȝte he, ‘howe vn-gracyously To my loue haue I gouerned me!’
c. 1520. Skelton, Magnyf., 2295. And so vngracyously thy dayes thou hast spent, That thou arte not worthy to loke God in the face.
1581. Nowell & Day, in Confer., I. (1584), F ij. Hee hath most vngratiously broken the vowe made to God in Baptisme.
1645. Gataker, God’s Eye on Israel, 44. Tho they ungratiously and ungratefully … demand of him, wherein he had loved them.
3. Not with a good grace; not pleasantly or agreeably.
1664. Jer. Taylor, Diss. from Popery, ii. § 4. 99. That a wicked person … can ease and take off the punishment … by any external good work done ungraciously, is a piece of new Divinity.
1823. Grace Kennedy, Father Clement, i. 18. Permission was always so unwillingly and so ungraciously given, that it was a penance to ask it.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., ii. I. 227. The treasurer … was induced … to become, unwillingly indeed and ungraciously, an agent in those transactions.
1894. H. Nisbet, Bush Girl’s Rom., 95. ‘I’ll do that also,’ grumbled Timothy, somewhat ungraciously.
4. Unbecomingly; with lack of manners, discourteously.
1736. Warburton, Alliance, I. v. 51. They are,… I know not why, ungraciously ashamed of their Pedigree.
1791. Boswell, Johnson (1904), II. 627, note. It were to be wished, that he … had not followed the example of Dr. Adam Smith in ungraciously attacking his venerable Alma Mater, Oxford.
1829. Scott, Anne of G., xxix. His ‘fleecy care’ seemed actually to be under the influence of his music, instead of being ungraciously insensible to its melody.
