unmeet
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Origin of unmeet
before 900; Middle English unmete, Old English unmǣte. See un- 1, meet 2
Example Sentences
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And therefore who are more unmeet to declare this message of light?
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
Leave, lady, leave this lone retreat In forest wilds for thee unmeet, Where giants fierce and strong assume All shapes and wander in the gloom.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
Then gifts to the gods not unmeet not idly given, with promise from tight-closed lips did she address her vows.
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
If thine no more, if lightly left behind, To guard the dancing clusters thought unmeet, It is because with gilded trellis twined Thy liberal growth demands untempered heat.
From Ionica by Cory, William (AKA William Johnson)
A creature unprepared, unmeet for death; And to transport him in the mind he is Were damnable.
From Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge
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