unmeet
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- unmeetly adverb
- unmeetness noun
Etymology
Origin of unmeet
before 900; Middle English unmete, Old English unmǣte. See un- 1, meet 2
Example Sentences
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I have your sister to my wife, Ye think me an unmeet marrow!
From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Sidgwick, Frank
The slightest curve on a face, May give an expression unmeet; Yet hers is so perfect and sweet, And shaped with such delicate grace, Its loveliness is complete.
From Stories in Verse by Abbey, Henry
If thine no more, if lightly left behind, To guard the dancing clusters thought unmeet, It is because with gilded trellis twined Thy liberal growth demands untempered heat.
From Ionica by Cory, William (AKA William Johnson)
A creature unprepared, unmeet for death; And to transport him in the mind he is Were damnable.
From Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge
With Ráma's might unmeet to vie, O'ermastered thou wilt quickly die.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
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