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unbefitted

unbefitted is the simple past and past participle of unbefit.

Meaning of unbefit

Verb

unbefit (third-person singular simple present unbefits, present participle unbefitting, simple past and past participle unbefitted)

  1. (archaic, rare, transitive) Not to befit or suit; to be inappropriate for.
    • I cannot think upon thee with the esteem
      Thy talents should have won thee; and the page,
      Which for a fallen enemy could teem
      With scorn; or with the dead its warfare wage;
      Would shame the bard, not thee, and unbefit the age.1822, Bernard Barton, Napoleon and Other Poems, page 56
  2. (archaic, rare, transitive) To make unfit or unsuitable.
    • No stain tarnishes the trappings to unbefit them for the adornment and control of the well groomed animal that restlessly confesses to his new experience.1874, Journal of Materia Medica, volume 13, page 161

Questions about unbefitted

What is unbefitted the simple past and past participle of?
Unbefitted is the simple past and past participle of unbefit.

Words near unbefitted in the dictionary

  1. unbeen
  2. unbeeped
  3. unbeery
  4. unbefit
  5. unbefits
  6. unbefitted
  7. unbefitting
  8. unbefittingly
  9. unbefittingness
  10. unbefogged
  11. unbefool

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