unmeet
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- unmeetly adverb
- unmeetness noun
Etymology
Origin of unmeet
before 900; Middle English unmete, Old English unmǣte. See un- 1, meet 2
Example Sentences
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The slightest curve on a face, May give an expression unmeet; Yet hers is so perfect and sweet, And shaped with such delicate grace, Its loveliness is complete.
From Stories in Verse by Abbey, Henry
Then, lady, lay aside that haughty scorning— A robe unmeet to deck a mortal frame; Mild be thy light, and innocent as morning, And shine on high and humble still the same.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various
In its western side was a closet, where they put the birds unmeet for the sin-offering.
From Hebrew Literature by Wilson, Epiphanius
Vidyāpati says: O Shivasimha Rāi, To abandon the loving is ever unmeet.
From Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna by Vidy?pati Th?kura
But all unmeet a king to be, The meanest of the mean is he Who basely breaks the promise made To trusting friends who lent him aid.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
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