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Webster 1828 Edition


Unfitness

UNFIT'NESS

, n.
1.
Want of suitable powers or qualifications, physical or moral; as the unfitness of a sick man for labor, or of an ignorant man for office; the unfitness of sinners for the enjoyments of heaven.
2.
Want of propriety or adaptation to character or place; as unfitness of behavior or of dress.