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Ingate vs Ingrate - What's the difference?

ingate | ingrate |

As nouns the difference between ingate and ingrate

is that ingate is (obsolete) entrance; ingress while ingrate is an ungrateful person.

As an adjective ingrate is

(obsolete|poetic) ungrateful.

ingate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) entrance; ingress
    • Which hath in charge the ingate of the year. — Spenser.
  • (obsolete) The aperture in a mould for pouring in the metal; the gate.
    • (Simmonds)
    (Webster 1913)

    ingrate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete, poetic) Ungrateful.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • Unpleasant, unfriendly

    • Quotations

    * 1590', Yet in his mind malitious and '''ingrate — Edmund Spenser, ''The Faerie Queene * 1596', But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer / As high in the air as this unthankful king, / As this '''ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke. — William Shakespeare, ''King Henry IV, Part 1 * 1671', Who, for so many benefits received, / Turned recreant to God, '''ingrate and false — John Milton, ''Paradise Regained

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ungrateful person.
  • * 1843', But Mr Pecksniff, dismissing all ephemeral considerations of social pleasure and enjoyment, concentrated his meditations on the one great virtuous purpose before him, of casting out that '''ingrate and deceiver, whose presence yet troubled his domestic hearth, and was a sacrilege upon the altars of his household gods. — Charles Dickens, ''Martin Chuzzlewit
  • * 1860–61': "Speak the truth, you '''ingrate !" cried Miss Havisham — Charles Dickens, ''Great Expectations
  • * 1893', Out of my sight, '''ingrate ! — W.S.Gilbert, ''Utopia Limited

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