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unmeetly

adverb

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Pronunciation: /ʌnˈmiːtli/

adv

Etymology: From unmeet + -ly.

  1. In an unmeet way; unbecomingly.

    they met / With a faire Mayden clad in mourning weed, / Upon a mangy jade unmeetely set […]

    Yet there are noble passages in his later poems: and even the latest have their own peculiar charm of serenity and kindliness,—a tranquil sunset, as it were, succeeding not unmeetly to the fiery splendours of his noontide course.