unmeet

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Then, lady, lay aside that haughty scorning— A robe unmeet to deck a mortal frame; Mild be thy light, and innocent as morning, And shine on high and humble still the same.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various

The slightest curve on a face, May give an expression unmeet; Yet hers is so perfect and sweet, And shaped with such delicate grace, Its loveliness is complete.

From Stories in Verse by Abbey, Henry

Then Ráma touched his senseless feet, And hers, for honour most unmeet; Round both his circling steps he bent, Then from the bower the hero went.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Why mention other thoughts unmeet For vision so composed and sweet?

From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) by Wordsworth, William

This methinks he perceived, and he set him to reason with me, that the command of holy Church sanctified the act done for her service, which otherwise had been perchance unmeet to be done.

From All's Well Alice's Victory by Lewin, M.