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  † 1.  Unbecoming, unfitting. Obs.

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1567.  Drant, Horace, Ep., B ij. I will tell them … what doth becom, and what unsetting is.

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a. 1598.  Rollock, 1 Thess. (1606), 183. Any thing that is vnsetting, or vnseemlie to this Christian calling.

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  2.  Not going beneath the horizon.

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1607.  Merry Devil Edmonton, III. ii. 101. Thou bright vnsetting star…!

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1819.  Crabbe, T. of Hall, xix. 543. Some spoke of wonders they before had seen, When on their travels…: How they beheld for months th’ unsetting sun.

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1844.  Lowell, Prometheus, 230. I Shall be a power and a memory,… a light Unsetting as the pole-star.

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1869.  McLaren, Serm., Ser. II. viii. 132. The full light of the unsetting Sun.

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  fig.  1838.  Mrs. Browning, An Island, xxvii. The undim Unsetting Godlight.

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