unfitness

[Eng. unfit; -ne .] 1. The quality or state of being unfit, improper, or unsuitable. "A fitne or unfitne of the application of different things or different relations one to another."- Clarke : On the Evidences. (Introd.) 2. Want of nece ary qualifications; incompetence. "Sensible of my own unfitne to direct." -Secker : Charge at Oxford (1750). un-fit-těd, a. [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. fitted.] Not fitted, qualified, or suited; unfit. "A post for which he was altogether unfitted."- Ma caulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. v. un-fit-ting, a. [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. fitting.] Not fitting or proper; improper. "Alas, poor child! unfitting part Fate doomed." Scott: Lord of the Isles, iii. 31. un-fix', v . t . [Pref. un- (2), and Eng. fix .] 1. To make no longer fixed or firm; to loosen, to unsettle, to detach. "That transfer, just or unjust, had taken place so long ago, that to reverse it would be to unfis the foundations of society." -Macaulay : Hist. Eng ., ch. vi. *2. To melt, to di olve. "Nor can the rising sun Unfix her frosts and teach them how to run." Dryden. ( Todd .) un-fixed, *un-fixt, a. [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. fixed.] 1. Not fixed; loosened, unsettled. "They are volatile and unfixt."-Bp. Taylor: Rule of Conscience, bk. iii., ch. iii. Sherburne: Salmacis. 2. Not affording a favorable prospect; as, unflat *un-flat-ter-ing-ly, adv . [Eng. unflattering; -ly.] Without flattery. Unfledged. *un-fledge', a. [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. fledge.] "Those which be taken unfledge out of the nest, and are nourished by man's hand, never afterward sing so well." -P. Holland: Plutarch , p. 469.