[UN-1 12; cf. prec.]
† 1. Gracelessness, reprobacy, wickedness. Obs.
1509. Barclay, Shyp of Folys (1570), 219. Yet trouble thou not by thy vngraciousnes Suche as are good and liue in righteousnes.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps., Ep. Ded. 3. The verye welsprings of all error, hipocrisie, and ungraciousnes.
1612. Brinsley, Lud. Lit., xxiv. (1627), 268. Who cannot indure to see sluggishnesse or idlenesse in any, much lesse any ungraciousnesse.
1658. T. Wall, Charact. Enemies Ch., 34. Dost thou see a man,… in contempt of goodness, to be a graduate in ungraciousness.
1742. Richardson, Pamela, IV. 353. Can those Persons be surpris’d at the Ungraciousness of their Children?
† 2. Unfortunate or wretched state. Obs.–1
1578. J. Stockwood, Serm., 24 Aug., 89. Complaintes of the vngraciousnesse and vnhappinesse of schollers.
3. Lack of courtesy or pleasantness.
1836. Keble, Lett., in Liddon, Pusey (1893), I. 428. It was a great piece of ungraciousness, my not telling you sooner how much I am obliged to you.
1864. Tennyson, Aylmer’s F., 245. O pardon me, I seem to be ungraciousness itself.
1884. Contemp. Rev., July, 150. To surrender the hand of a woman … after a great deal of hesitation and ungraciousness.
