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a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. vii. The unsutablenes of a weake broken voice to high brave wordes.
1644. Milton, Areop. (Arb.), 73. To suppresse opinions for the newnes, or the unsutablenes to a customary acceptance.
a. 1697. South, Serm. (1715), II. 167. The real Unsuitableness, that every thing sinful, or dishonest, bears to the Nature of Man.
1754. Edwards, Freed. Will, IV. viii. 239. The Unsuitableness of such a Necessity to the Liberty … of the divine Being.
1845. Ld. Campbell, Chancellors, lxxxiii. (1857), IV. 135. From the unsuitableness of his manner and style he is not … entertaining.
1886. Law Times, LXXXII. 173/2. Those who allege my unsuitableness for the high position I now hold.
