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▪ I. unˈseeming, pres. pple.
[un-1 13.]
Not seeming or appearing.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. ii. i. 156 You..wrong the reputation of your name, In so vnseeming to confesse receyt Of that which hath so faithfully beene paid.
▪ II. unˈseeming, ppl. a.
[un-1 10, 5 d.]
†1.
a. Unbecoming, unseemly; = unbeseeming a. 2. Obs.
a1340Hampole Psalter lxxii. 15 Lo þis misemand [v.r. vnsemand] þing folous. 1382Wyclif Prov. xxvi. 7 So vnsemende thing is in the mouth of foolis a parable. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) III. 146 But quhois counsall nother prince nor king Ma gif consent to sic wnsemand thing. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Rom. 33 Cutte out of thy mynde superfluous and vnsemyng desyres. 1662Baxter Saints' R. iii. xi. 473 Unsavoury, harsh, and unseeming [ed. 1650 unseemly] language.
b. In predicative use, sometimes with dependent clause. Obs.
c1400Destr. Troy 3891 He spake neuer dispituosly,..Ne sagh, þat was vnsemond, slipped hym fro. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 10029 Hit is foly and vnsemyng A man to leue on fals dremyng. c1460G. Ashby Dicta Philos. 967 On erthe ther is no thing so vnsemyng As a kynge to be in predacion. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Rom. 27 Vnseamyng is it for loue of suche a meane, to dispise the ende. 1550Bale Eng. Votaries ii. 29 Remembrynge..that nothynge was more vnsemynge, than an olde dottynge fole..so to rage.
c. Const. for or to. Obs.
1382Wyclif Prov. xxvi. 1 What maner snoȝ in somer,..so vnsemende is to the fool glorie. c1400Destr. Troy 1846 Þat hynd..Þat ye kepe in youre company..As subiecte vnto syn, vnsemyng for you. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 64 With thir, and siclike inhumane cruelteis, unsemand to ane prince. 1592W. Wyrley Armorie 20 As these things are vnseeming for him to weare.
d. With direct object. Obs.
1592Golding De Mornay (ed. 2) i. 12 He is tempted of his lustes, a thing altogether vnseeming the Godhead. 1620Mason Newfoundland 5 Fishing is a beastly trade and unseeming a Gentleman. 1648Gage West Ind. 44 The beds only were unseeming this great state, very poor. 1701Stanley's Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) 100, I think it most unseeming a Philosopher to sell his advice.
2. Unapparent. rare.
1923D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 174 The elephants ponderously, with unseeming swiftness, galloped uphill in the night.
Hence † unˈseemingness. Obs.
1540Wyatt in Flügel Neuengl. Lesebuch I. 348 Here I allegid the vnsemingnes to gyve credence to his word. |