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Webster 1913 Edition
Misbecome
Misˊbe-come′
,Verb.
T.
Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to.
Macaulay.
Thy father will not act what
misbecomes
him. Addison.
Webster 1828 Edition
Misbecome
MISBECOME
,Verb.
T.
Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit.
Thy father will not act what misbecomes him.
Definition 2024
misbecome
misbecome
English
Verb
misbecome (third-person singular simple present misbecomes, present participle misbecoming, simple past and past participle misbecame)
- (obsolete) To be unsuitable, unbefitting, or maladapted.
- 1802, John Duncan, An appendix to seasonable hints to the younger part of the Clergy of the Church of England:
- It misbecame him to appear in the character of a mediator of peace, in a quarrel, the futility of which he had presumed to judge and hastily condemn.
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Derived terms
- misbecoming
- misbecomingly
- misbecomingness