English

Adjective

unmeet ‎(comparative more unmeet, superlative most unmeet)

1. (archaic) Not proper
   • 1588, Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great, Part I.:

     I have purposely omitted and left out some fond and frivolous gestures, digressing, and, in my poor opinion, far unmeet for the matter […] .

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4 Scene 1

     [...] O, my father!

     Prove you that any man with me convers'd

     At hours unmeet, or that I yesternight

     Maintain'd the change of words with any creature,

     Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death.

   • 1851, Grace Aguilar, The Vale of Cedars:

     Ferdinand himself gazed on her a moment astonished; then with animated courtesy hastily raised her, and playfully chid the movement as unmeet from a hostess to her guests.

   • 1900, Ernest Dowson, Amor Umbratilis:

     I cast my flowers away,
     Blossoms unmeet for you!

   • 1915, James Branch Cabell, The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck:

     There were many hideous histories the colonel could have told you of, unmeet to be set down, and he was familiar with this talk of pelvic anomalies which were congenital.

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