beseeming

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Willingly, noble lady, will we give you our escort,—the more so that this poor child will then have a friend with her beseeming her father's rank.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various

Upon the scaffold, he behaved with the firmness which became a noble spirit, and the patience beseeming one who was reconciled to heaven.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John

Neither can they make good or evil, beseeming or not beseeming, what they list, but their commandments are to be examined by a higher rule.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George

Wherefore, we conclude, that Christ did voluntarily, and of set purpose, choose sitting as the fittest and best beseeming gesture for that holy banquet.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George

Fr. convenable, apt, fit, meet for, beseeming, seemlie, &c.

From Caxton's Book of Curtesye by Furnivall, Frederick James