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Definition of Misbecoming
1. a. Unbecoming.
Definition of Misbecoming
1. Verb. (present participle of misbecome) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misbecoming
1. misbecome [v] - See also: misbecome
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misbecoming
Literary usage of Misbecoming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great by Robert Cochrane (1887)
"... misbecoming familiarities, inscribe upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dea
man must take upon himself to be lecturing m with his odious truism, ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Remembered not the opulent, great Queen, Whom riotous misbecoming^ so ... Stir the
constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them Into misbecoming plight. ..."
3. The whole works of ... Jeremy Taylor, with a life of the author and a by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1856)
"First: Although smaller disobediences, expressed in slight misbecoming actions,
when they come by surprise and sudden invasion, are, through the mercies of ..."
4. The Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb, Augustine Birrell (1905)
"Impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones
... More than all, I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming ..."
5. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D., Lord Bishop of Down by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber, Charles Page Eden (1850)
"First: Although smaller disobediences, expressed in slight misbecoming actions,
when they come by surprise and sudden invasion, are, through the mercies of ..."
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