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unmeet

[ uhn-meet ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

unmeet

/ ʌnˈmiːt /

Origin of unmeet¹

before 900; Middle English unmete, Old English unmǣte. See un- ¹, meet ²

Bethink you how unmeet you are to be the choosers of your own condition.

We know thee not, but thou art a good hurler and not otherwise, as we think, unmeet to bear us company.

It is unmeet that she who in her time had husband, and goods, and son, should lie unburied like a dead cow on the fells.

If it be speech unmeet for the hearing of a grave and reverend man, will you speak it before God?

Unmeet companion no doubt his grave courtiers thought Cesario was, for their once noble master, the great Duke Orsino.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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