Crossword clues for ingratitude
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ingratitude \In*grat"i*tude\, n. [F. ingratitude, L. ingratitudo. See Ingrate.] Lack of gratitude; insensibility to, forgetfulness of, or ill return for, kindness or favors received; unthankfulness; ungratefulness.
Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend.
--Shak.
Ingratitude is abhorred both by God and man.
--L'Estrange.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Old French ingratitude (13c.) and directly from Latin ingratitudinem (nominative ingratitudo), noun of quality from ingratus (see ingrate).
Wiktionary
n. A lack or absence of gratitude; thanklessness.
WordNet
n. a lack of gratitude [syn: ungratefulness] [ant: gratitude]
Usage examples of "ingratitude".
Artaxerxes had served with great reputation in the armies of Artaban, the last king of the Parthians, and it appears that he was driven into exile and rebellion by royal ingratitude, the customary reward for superior merit.
Is it not the blackest ingratitude and the stupidest philosophical error to condemn that necessary figure?
Whether more specially as regards certain sins they return, in a way, on account of ingratitude?
Whether this ingratitude, on account of which sins return, is a special sin?
Whether Sins That Have Been Forgiven, Return Through Ingratitude Which Is Shown Especially in Four Kinds of Sin?
Objection 1: It would seem that sins do not return through ingratitude, which is shown especially in four kinds of sin, viz.
Therefore it seems that sins already pardoned do not return through ingratitude as manifested in these sins, any more than as shown in other sins.
Further, ingratitude is all the greater, according as one sins after receiving a greater favor.
Therefore the first sin committed after innocence is no less an ingratitude to God, than a sin committed after repentance, so that seemingly ingratitude in respect of the aforesaid sins is not the chief cause of sins returning.
Now one may be guilty of ingratitude in two ways: first by doing something against the favor received, and, in this way, man is ungrateful to God in every mortal sin whereby he offends God Who forgave his sins, so that by every subsequent mortal sin, the sins previously pardoned return, on account of the ingratitude.
Accordingly it is said that the ingratitude of sinners is a special cause of the return of sins previously forgiven.
In this way the favor of the pardon of sins is greater when bestowed on one who is altogether unworthy, so that the ingratitude which follows is all the greater.
Whether the Debt of Punishment That Arises Through Ingratitude in Respect of a Subsequent Sin Is As Great As That of the Sins Previously Pardoned?
Objection 1: It would seem that the debt of punishment arising through ingratitude in respect of a subsequent sin is as great as that of the sins previously pardoned.
Because the greatness of the favor of the pardon of sins is according to the greatness of the sin pardoned, and so too, in consequence, is the greatness of the ingratitude whereby this favor is scorned.