unfitness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

UNFIT'NESS, noun 1. Want of suitable powers or qualifications, physical or moral; as the unfitness of a sick man for labor, or of an ignorant man for office; the unfitness of sinners for the enjoyments of heaven. 2. Want of propriety or adaptation to character or place; as unfitness of behavior or of dress.
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