a. (UN-1 7.)
α. 1710. Shaftesb., Charac. (1711), I. 312. Nor is there any thing ungalante in the manner of thus questioning the Lady-Fancys.
1762. H. Walpole, Vertue’s Anecd. Paint. (1765), II. 128. Vandyck … was so ungalant as to dispute with her on the price of her picture.
β. 1739. Gay, Lett. to Swift, 27 April. All my fear is, that you will give up me for her, which, after my ungallant declaration, would be very ungenerous.
1829. Lytton, Devereux, I. It must not be supposed that Sir William Devereux was an ungallant man.
1863. ‘Ouida,’ Held in Bondage, viii. True enough!… It is an ungallant admission.
absol. 1808. Eleanor Sleath, Bristol Heiress, V. 282. His behaviour was … a little upon the ungallant.
Hence Ungallantness.
1859. Jephson & Reeve, Brittany, 176. On my making him aware of his ungallantness.
