Unbecomingness

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1652. J. Hall, Height of Eloquence, p. ix. All these extream unbecomingnesses have defaced Eloquence.

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1693. Locke, Educ., § 75. If Words are sometimes to be used, they ought to be grave, kind and sober, representing the ill, or unbecomingness of the Fault.

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1810. Bentham, Packing (1821), 98. Flippancy…. Deviation from decency…. Unbecomingness.

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1871. Geo. Eliot, Middlem., xxxiv. She felt the unbecomingness of saying anything that might convey a notion of it to others.

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