ingratitude

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INGRAT'ITUDE, noun 1. Want of gratitude or sentiments of kindness for favors received; insensibility to favors, and want of a disposition to repay them; unthankfulness. Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man. No man will own himself guilty of ingratitude 2. Retribution of evil for good. Nor was it with ingratitude returned.
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