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missuit en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /mɪsˈsuːt/
• /mɪsˈsjuːt/

Etymology

From mis- + suit.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To fail to suit.
   • But I think they suit the landscape, atmosphere, limpid sky, massive sunlight, of Italy, as much as they would missuit England, France, and Germany. 1868, Edward Heneage Dering, Florence Danby, page 164:
   • Each states the law and fact and face o' the thing Just as he'd have them, finds what he thinks fit, Is blind to what missuits him, just records What makes his case out, quite ignores the rest. 1864, Robert Browning, “The Medium”, in Mr. Sludge, ':
   • I now discovered — as in hasty love matches has but too often proved to be the case — that my guide and I were unhappily missuited to each other, and the consequence was we had at least six quarrels […] 1852, Sir Francis Bond Head, A Faggot of French Sticks, volume 1, page 121:

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