beseeming

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There was something of Effie's former humour in her practically answering the question by a gentle pinch, more beseeming the fingers of a fairy than of a ghost.

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Scott, Walter, Sir

Yet, still, had England said, “You’re free, Choose whom you will,” dear sir, to thee, For dress beseeming modest worth, I would have led our pilgrim forth.

From Cottage Poems by Brontë, Patrick

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

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

This, I say, is not beseeming those that are in Christ Jesus.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

Why is that lean doctor so slow,—cadaverous man with hollow jaw and sunken eye, ill beseeming the richness of his mother church!

From The Warden by Trollope, Anthony