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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.Definition 2024
unfitness
unfitness
English
Noun
unfitness (countable and uncountable, plural unfitnesses)
- The characteristic of being unfit or ill-suited.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- Among other particulars which constituted the unfitness of things in Mr Square's opinion, danger and difficulty were two.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- The characteristic of being unfit or out of physical shape.
Translations
characteristic of being unfit
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