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unsitting en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + sitting.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Not sitting well; unbecoming.
   • According to More's English text, when she heard of his relationship with Elizabeth Woodville, Edward IV's mother begged him 'to refrain you from her mariage, sit it is an unsitting thing, and a veri blemish, and highe disparagement to the sacred magesty of a prince. 2011, John Ashdown-Hill, The Secret Queen, page 163:
   • but with Tirone and Odoynall as they are there is little to fear, and the writer has not greatly busied himself, except by ltters, to agree them, lest, being in amity as in times past, the French king might persuide them to "do somethings unsitting." 1920, John Sherren Brewer, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII, page 115:
   • unsitting demeanor a. 1535, Sir Thomas More, History of King Richard III:
2. Not in a seated position.
   • The word itself, from Greek, means "an unsitting prayer ” ; that is, it is traditionally prayed while standing, or while moving in procession. 2023, Donald Sheehan, Xenia Sheehan, In the House of My Pilgrimage:
   • Her belly feathers were all ruffled, unlike the straight black waiscoat stripe of her unsitting mate. 2021, Mike Tomkies, A Last Wild Place: Seasons in the Wilderness:
   • Alternatively, with feet beyond the bar, relaxed 'unsitting' muscle and sinew complexes savor the unaccustomed energy flow which accompanies my intentional consciousness, moving to precisely the points needing and receiving energy healing. 2007, Llan Starkweather, Pranic Self-Healing - Intention Not in Tension, page 47:

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