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unmeetly en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ʌnˈmiːtli/ (UK)

Etymology

From unmeet + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an unmeet way; unbecomingly.
   • they met / With a faire Mayden clad in mourning weed, / Upon a mangy jade unmeetely set […] 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
   • Yet there are noble passages in his later poems: and even the latest have their own peculiar charm of serenity and kindliness,—a tranquil sunset, as it were, succeeding not unmeetly to the fiery splendours of his noontide course. 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 3, page 28:

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