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Ungentill, adj. Also: ungentyll, wngentill. [ME and e.m.E. vngentil (Chaucer), vngentill (1486), vngentyl (1509); Gentil(l adj.]

1. Unkind; harsh; rough. 1456 Hay I 222/4.
Quhat war he that had sa hard a hert na he wald have merci of thame … menand that quhasa did the contrair he war ungentill, uncurtas and unconnand 1544 Corr. M. Lorraine 105.
The ungentyll handling of your gracis servandis be the governowr and his frendis

b. Lacking in generosity, mean. a1538 Abell 12b.
Ciyr wes nocht wngentill for he gaif to his gudscher Astiages … Hircayn and to his eyme Dary the kinrik of Meid

2. Not of noble birth, base-born. Chiefly absol. Also transf., of lineage. a1586 Lindsay MS 44b.
The prayeris of ane evill carle that is vngentill, that is to say, ane churle a1586 Lindsay MS 44b.
Ane gentillman behuffis to knaw colouris of armes be propir skyll of differens of blude betuix ane gentilman and ane vngentill a1586 Lindsay MS 55a.
To disewer gentilmen frome vngentill [Loutfut MS wngentilmen] and to desewer gentilnes frome vngentilnes [Loutfut MS wngentilnes]transf. 1494 Loutfut MS 52a.
By the sonnes of Adam and Eue, Seth, Abell and Cayn, dyuydid was the riall bloode fro the wngentill