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English
Etymology
From mis- + seem.
Pronunciation
Verb
misseem (third-person singular simple present misseems, present participle misseeming, simple past and past participle misseemed)
- (literary) To be unbecoming to; not to suit.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Ne certes, daughter, that same warlike wize, / I weene, would you misseeme; for ye beene tall, / And large of limbe t'atchieve an hard emprize [...].
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