Misseem

//mɪsˈsiːm// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To be unbecoming to; not to suit. literary

    "Ne certes, daughter, that same warlike wize, / I weene, would you misseeme; for ye beene tall, / And large of limbe t'atchieve an hard emprize [...]."

Example

More examples

"Ne certes, daughter, that same warlike wize, / I weene, would you misseeme; for ye beene tall, / And large of limbe t'atchieve an hard emprize [...]."

Etymology

From mis- + seem.

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