ungentleness

ungentleness
noun /ʌnˈdʒɛntlnəs/
Harshness, roughness.

Ye have be named wronge, for ye have ben called ever a jantyll knyght; and as at this day ye have shewed me grete unjantylnes, for ye had allmoste brought me to my dethe.


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