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unˈfitness
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1. Want of fitness (in various senses).
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. xxiv, Having impatiently borne the delay of the nights unfitnesse, this morning he gat up. 1624in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. III. 173, I represented to her the unfitnesse of the seventh article. 1643–5Milton Divorce i. i, What greater..unfitnes of mind then that which hinders ever the solace..of the married couple. 1736Butler Anal. i. iii. 69 A Proof from Fact..which is deduced from..the Fitness and Unfitness of Actions. 1750tr. Leonardus' Mirr. Stones 31 A bad commixture..sometimes happens..from the unfitness of the place, which gives a diversity to stones. 1824Southey Sir T. More (1831) II. 94 There is a natural unfitness in distant dominion. 1863Cox Instit. iii. iii. 636 The rule..has no respect to the fitness or unfitness of the persons.
b. Const. for, or to with inf.
1619in Foster Eng. Factories India (1906) I. 70 The unfitnesse of those comodityes for the Dabulleers. 1631Gouge God's Arrows iii. §22. 223 Mans unworthinesse and unfitnesse to appeare in Gods sight. 1750Secker Eight Charges (1771) 124, I have too much Cause, in every Thing, to be sensible of my own Unfitness to direct. 1811Regul. & Orders Army 283 The Causes of their unfitness for further Military Service. 1885Manch. Exam. 18 Mar. 5/2 There was..evidence of his unfitness to take care of himself.
2. With pl. An instance of lack of fitness.
1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. 1851 IV. 193 Law..cannot make equal those inequalities, it cannot make fit those unfitnesses. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 32 If they could be brought in without other unfitnesses. |