Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Comeliness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Archaic Becoming; suitable.
  • noun obsolete Appearance; look; garb.
  • noun Comeliness.

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  • verb Present participle of beseem.

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Examples

  • It is meet and beseeming that novices should undergo fasts and vigils; for some part of every community must fast, and young stomachs may best endure it.

    The Monastery 2008

  • She pursued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when her lover visited Hayat al-Nufus in her palace, the twain embraced and she improvised some happy couplets beseeming the occasion.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • He received Albany, Douglas, March, and the prior, those ill assorted members of his motley council, with a mixture of courtesy and loftiness, which reminded each haughty peer that he stood in the presence of his sovereign, and compelled him to do the beseeming reverence.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • “My song is recompensed nobly,” said Louise, shrinking back; “my nuts are sold to a good market; farther traffic, my lord, were neither befitting you nor beseeming me.”

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • The Caliph bade admit him; so he went in and kissing ground before him, handed to him the letter of the King of France, together with rich gifts and rare presents beseeming the Commander of the Faithful.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • A churchman, on the other hand, might have thought he of the blue and violet was of too loose habits, and accustomed too little to limit himself within the boundaries of beseeming mirth, to be fit society for one of his sacred calling.

    Castle Dangerous 2008

  • [2056] Because they are rich, and have other means to live, they think it concerns them not to know, or to trouble themselves with it; a fitter task for younger brothers, or poor men's sons, to be pen and inkhorn men, pedantical slaves, and no whit beseeming the calling of a gentleman, as Frenchmen and

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • In the latter part of this instructive communication, Mr. Fairservice lowered his voice to a tone better beseeming the conversation in a place of public resort on a Sabbath evening, and his companion and he were soon beyond my hearing.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • Tressilian appeared, and made a low and beseeming reference.

    Kenilworth 2004

  • It was a quiet, sombre, clerical house, beseeming such a man as the warden, and thus he afterwards frequented it.

    The Warden 2004

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