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unˈfitting, ppl. a.
[un-1 10, 5 d.]
Not fitting or suitable; unbecoming, improper.
Apparent earlier examples, when verifiable, have proved to be errors for unsitting. Cf. the note to fitting ppl. a.
1590Greene Orl. Fur. i. i. 220 Least little brooking these vnfitting braues, My cholar ouer-slip the law of Armes. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 318 These Canons did not continue long at Otteham, the scituation of the place being vnfitting. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. ii. lxviii. (1674) 221 A thing which..is altogether unfitting to be named. 1687in Magd. Coll. & Jas. II (O.H.S.) 103 He was unfitting by reason of his Immorality. 1771Burke Prosecut. Libels Wks. 1842 II. 493 This is an unfitting, it is a dangerous, state of things. 1853Abp. Thomson Laws Th. (ed. 3) Pref. p. v, Some account of the exact position which this work pretends to occupy..may not be an unfitting introduction to its pages.
b. Const. for, or with direct object.
15911st Pt. Troub. Raigne K. John (1611) B j b, These thoughts are farre vnfitting Fauconbridge. a1593Marlowe Ovid's Elegies iii. i. 40 Small doores vnfitting for large houses are. 1603Florio Montaigne i. xxxix. 125 Qualities mis-seeming his place, and unfitting his calling. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 71 Lest..the seamen should be forgetful, and unfitting for naval warfare. 1849Rock Ch. of Fathers i. v. (1903) I. 293 What so unfitting the solemnity of soul..at a burial service?
Hence unˈfittingness.
1861Macm. Mag. June 134 Colour or form which represents an unfittingness would be likely to become itself an unfittingness. |