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  1.  trans. To be unseemly or unbecoming for (a person); to suit (one) badly.

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a. 1657.  R. Loveday, Lett. (1663), 30. I … write his Letters, and [do] whatever else that unbeseems not his command or my obedience.

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1678.  Gale, Crt. Gentiles, IV. III. Pref. A ij. Passionate emotions, personal reflexions, or whatever may unbeseem one that lies under essential obligation [etc.].

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1846.  H. G. Robinson, Odes of Horace, II. xii. Whom it ne’er unbeseem’d to bear foot in the dance.

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  2.  To fail in, fall short of.

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1812.  Byron, Ch. Har., To Ianthe, ii. Ah! may’st thou ever be what now thou art, Nor unbeseem the promise of thy spring.

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1870.  Creasy, Hist. Eng., II. 336. But be soon unbeseemned that promise.

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