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unbeˈseem, v.
[un-1 14.]
1. trans. To be unseemly or unbecoming for (a person); to suit (one) badly.
a1657R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 30, I..write his Letters, and [do] whatever else that unbeseems not his command or my obedience. 1678Gale Crt. Gentiles iv. iii. Pref. A ij, Passionate emotions, personal reflexions, or whatever may unbeseem one that lies under essential obligation [etc.]. 1846H. G. Robinson Odes of Horace ii. xii, Whom it ne'er unbeseem'd to bear foot in the dance.
2. To fail in, fall short of.
1812Byron Ch. Har., To Ianthe ii, Ah! may'st thou ever be what now thou art, Nor unbeseem the promise of thy spring. 1870E. Creasy Hist. Eng. II. 336 But he soon unbeseemed that promise. |