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English
Etymology
From un- + become.
Verb
unbecome (third-person singular simple present unbecomes, present participle unbecoming, simple past unbecame, past participle unbecome)
- (obsolete, transitive) To misbecome.
a. 1753, Thomas Sherlock, Discourse VII preached at the Temple Church:[…] he refrains from those freedoms which the world judges unbecoming his character, though harmless in themselves […]
- (copulative) To become not, especially when one was previously not before a process of becoming what one currently is.
1979 December 29, Carrie Dearborn, “Uncontrolled Fantasy”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 15:Jess has some fun with her powers, and she does learn from her mistakes. This is all very nice, but she does not un-become a witch at the end of the book; thus the story slips out of the realm of fantasy and bumps its way into some as yet undefined category.
2001 September, Jane Hindman, “Making Writing Matter: Using "the Personal" to Recover an Essential Tension in Academic Discourse”, in College English, volume 64, number 1, page 90:I "became" a drunk only because of words and in response to pressure to do "the program" right. Thus I could "unbecome" a drunk if I just had the nerve or the imagination to break away from what you guys tell me I am from your words