unbecome

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unbecome

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From un- + become.

verb unbecomes · unbecoming · unbecame · unbecome

obsolete, transitive To misbecome. […] 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. 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.

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@misc{unbecome_2026,
  title = {unbecome},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/unbecome},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}