单词 | unmeetness |
释义 | unmeetnessn. Now archaic. ΚΠ eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. vi. 176 Ða þa seofon ger gefylled wæron, þa gesetton heo fæstlice fore unmætnisse þæs gewinnes [L. ob nimietatem laboris], þæt heo eallinga forlete þa getimbro þisse cirican. OE tr. Alexander's Let. to Aristotle (1995) §30. 244 Ða ic þa unmætnisse & micelnisse ðæs snawes geseah, ða þuhte me þæt ic wiste þæt he wolde ealle þa wicstowe forfeallan. lOE tr. Alcuin De Virtutibus et Vitiis (Vesp.) in R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies (1917) 101 Heo mihten heom gebyrgen þa unmætnysse þære wite þurh ondetnysse & þurh dædbote, ac heo hit forgemeleasoden. 2. Unsuitability, inappropriateness; incompatibility. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unfittingness > [noun] unconablenessa1340 unconabletya1340 unlikelinessa1413 ungrace1430 disconveniencec1450 wangrace1513 uncomeliness1542 improperty1555 unproperness1561 unmeetness1574 unhandsomeness1598 unbeseemingness1623 unbecomingness1652 impropriety1697 indecence1714 paw-pawness1828 unadaptedness1846 unbefittingness1865 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun] inconvenience1413 uncompetence?1541 unaptness1548 improperty1555 unaptness1557 unproperness1561 impertinency1573 unmeetness1574 disagreement1580 unfitnessa1586 unsuitablenessa1586 incongruity1597 inconvenientness1600 improperness1612 indispositiona1613 insuitability1612 ineptitude1615 impertinence1616 inconcinnity1616 infelicity1617 unbeseemingness1623 ineptness1633 impertinentness1645 incompatibility1659 incompetibilitya1660 disaccommodationa1676 indecorousness1681 indisposednessa1684 inaptitudea1688 impropriety1697 wrongness1726 ineligibility1795 inaptness1814 unsuitability1814 unappropriateness1838 unadaptedness1846 inappropriateness1847 unfittingness1861 unbefittingness1865 ineligibleness1881 1574 J. Baret Aluearie F 796 Unaptnesse or vnmeetenesse,..ineptia. 1586 W. Webbe tr. Horace in Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. K.ii In a Satyr greate heede is to be taken..of the vnmeetnesse or inconuenience of the matter. 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 238 As there is a disproportion in the legges of a lame man,..so there is much unmeetnesse in a fooles parable. 1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 66 A perpetuall unmeetnes and unwillingnesse to all the duties of helpe. a1683 J. Owen True Nature Gospel Church (1689) 164 The unmeetness of the People to be lead under this Spiritual Rule. a1733 D. Wilcox 64 Pract. Serm. (1744) III. i. ii. 20 I own, and lament, my unmeetness for the heavenly kingdom. 1827 Q. Rev. 36 36 The unmeetness of the parties being a satisfactory ground of divorce. 1868 J. G. Whittier Among Hills 312 Love has naught to do With meetness or unmeetness. 1918 Bible Champion Jan. 26/1 At first Jesus seemed—yet only seemed—to repel her, speaking..of the unmeetness of giving the children's loaf to the dogs. 1962 A. M. Lindbergh Dearly Beloved 111 Adultery didn't destroy marriage as much as ‘unmeetness’. Unmeetness described it exactly. She and Tom couldn't meet in this mutual web. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE |
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