unbehovely
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Middle English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
unbehovely
- not behooving or becoming; unseemly
- c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:
- That I am unbehovely
Your court fro this day for to serve.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading[edit]
- “unbehovely”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.