Middle English Dictionary Entry
ingrā̆titū̆de n.
Entry Info
| Forms | ingrā̆titū̆de n. Also engratitude. |
| Etymology | OF ingratitude & L ingrātitūdo. In sense (b), the word may have been used merely to get a rime, without regard to meaning. If there is any meaning, it is derived somehow from L ingrātus 'disagreeable, unacceptable', although ingrāt in this sense does not appear until after the ME period. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Ungratefulness; (b) as adj.:?unacceptable, ?excluded.
Associated quotations
a
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)18/4 : A vice þet is y-cleped ine clergie ingratitude, þet is uoryeti[n]ge of god and of his guodes, þet me ne þonkeþ him naȝt.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.6137 : Ȝe han þe goddis founde..benigne..And so schal forþe ȝif ȝou[r] ingratitude Prouoke hem nat.
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)744 : Thys peruersyose ingratytude I can not rehers.
- c1500(a1449) Lydg.Aesop (Trin-C R.3.19)753 : A lytyll fabill I rede Of engratytude..How that a wolff..Was to the crane..falce founden and wnkynd.
b
- a1500 Moste glorious lord (Voss Germ.Gall.Q.9)172 : We preye the we be not Ingratytude Fro the presens of the hye magnytude.