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unˈseemliness
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1. The quality of being unseemly in respect of action, conduct, etc.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 43 Unsemelynes schulde not be in Cristes Chirche. 1549Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. 2 Thess. iii. 11 b, Getting their liuyng with their owne handes, rather than to be greuouse vnto other with shamles crauinges & vnsemelines. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades 510/2 What vnseemelinesse soeuer is committed against God and his Church. 1678Wanley Wond. Lit. World v. i. §82. 466/2 The Emperour did expostulate the unseemliness of the deed with him. 1829Lytton Devereux i. xiii, I saw the unseemliness of fighting with my preceptor, and a priest. 1871Jowett Plato IV. 170 His virtue being such, that he never..fell into any great unseemliness.
2. The quality of being unseemly in appearance; uncomeliness.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 23/1 The cleavinge in the lippes is such an vnseemlines and deformitye. 1603G. Owen Pembrokeshire (1892) 44 Parchinge of the sunne, and starveinge with cold is a cheefe cause of the vnseemelynes of the comon people of the countrey. 1846Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. I. 195 Johnson. It makes an unseemly appearance in the type. Tooke. The unseemliness is not equal to the absurdity. |