beseeming

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14
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18
Letters
9

Definition of beseeming

4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Becoming, befitting, suitable.
    “Her Veſt, with Flow'rs of Gold embroider'd o'er, / With Grief diſtreſs'd, the mournful Matron tore, / And a beſeeming Suit of gloomy Sable wore.”
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adj

  1. Becoming, befitting, suitable.
    “Her Veſt, with Flow'rs of Gold embroider'd o'er, / With Grief diſtreſs'd, the mournful Matron tore, / And a beſeeming Suit of gloomy Sable wore.”

noun

  1. (obsolete, uncountable, usually)Appearance; look.
    “I am Sir / The Souldier that did company theſe three / In poor beſeeming: 't was a fitment for / The purpoſe I then follow'd.”
    “His sword fell from his grasp—his eye, late glaring with the ire of a stricken tiger,—his brow, late speaking but death, and dark defiance, suddenly sank into the soft beseeming of gratefulness, and of betokened kindness and feeling.”
  2. (form-of, gerund, obsolete, uncountable, usually)gerund of beseem: a comely appearance; attractiveness.

verb

  1. (form-of, gerund, obsolete, participle, present)present participle and gerund of beseem

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Etymology

From beseem + -ing.

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