| 单词 |
unbefitting |
| 释义 |
unbeˈfitting, ppl. a.
[un-1 10 and 5 d.]
Not befitting or suitable: a. Without const.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 770 Loue is full of vnbefitting straines. 1659Milton Civ. Power 48 Then was the state of rigor, childhood, bondage and works, to all which force was not unbefitting. 1836J. Gilbert Chr. Atonem. ix. (1852) 275 To imagine that,..were of all extravagances the most wild and unbefitting. 1864Pusey Lect. Daniel viii. 472 It would be unbefitting to speak of the Creator as the ‘throne’ of the creature. 1891Meredith One of our Conq. xxx, Mrs. Blathenoy resented her unbefitting queenly style.
b. Governing a n. (Cf. befit v. 1.)
a1643J. Shute Judgem. & Mercy ix. (1645) 198 Moses..loved not to..provoke him [Pharaoh] and use him unbefitting a Magistrate. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 759 Farr be it, that I should..think thee unbefitting holiest place. 1815L. Hunt Feast Poets 70 The stanza..has always an air of direct imitation, which is unbefitting the dignity of an original seriousness. 1880M. E. Braddon Just as I am vii, She never wore a garment unbefitting her years. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 115 A species of rest..not unbefitting the day.
Hence unbeˈfittingly adv., unbeˈfittingness.
1871Macduff Mem. Patmos iv. 49 The form which these seven letters or addresses assume is unique; or, as it has not unbefittingly been called, ‘artistic’. 1865Pusey Truth Eng. Ch. 194 The longing for the vision of God, from which the unbefittingness, yet cleaving to her, still excludes her. |
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