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Webster 1913 Edition
Unbeseem
Unˊbe-seem′
,Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+ beseem
.] To be unbecoming or unsuitable to; to misbecome.
Definition 2024
unbeseem
unbeseem
English
Verb
unbeseem (third-person singular simple present unbeseems, present participle unbeseeming, simple past and past participle unbeseemed)
- (obsolete, transitive) to be unsuitable for
- 1809-1818, Lord Byron, Child Harold's Pilgrimage To Ianthe, stanza 2, first five lines (for syntax)
- Ah! mayst thou ever be what now thou art,
- Nor unbeseem the promise of thy spring,
- As fair in form, as warm yet pure in heart,
- Love’s image upon earth without his wing,
- And guileless beyond Hope’s imagining!
- 1809-1818, Lord Byron, Child Harold's Pilgrimage To Ianthe, stanza 2, first five lines (for syntax)