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Misbecome   Listen
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Misbecome  v. t.  Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. "Thy father will not act what misbecomes him."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Misbecome" Quotes from Famous Books



... against the immorality which disgraced both letters and loyalty. A mightier poet, tried at once by pain, danger, poverty, obloquy, and blindness, meditates, undisturbed by the obscene tumult which raged all around him, a song so sublime and so holy that it would not have misbecome the lips of those ethereal Virtues whom he saw, with that inner eye which no calamity could darken, flinging down on the jasper pavement their crowns of amaranth and gold. The vigourous and fertile genius of Butler, if it did not altogether escape the prevailing infection, took ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 1 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay



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