Definition for UN-FIT'NESS

UN-FIT'NESS, n.

  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 enjoyment of heaven.
  2. Want of propriety or adaptation to character or place; as, unfitness of behavior or of dress.

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