beseeming
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Fr. convenable, apt, fit, meet for, beseeming, seemlie, &c.
From Caxton's Book of Curtesye by Frederick James Furnivall
It was like a masquerade of rank and culture in the rags of misery, beseeming it as ill as an unsuitable part in a play.
From Footsteps of Fate by Louis Couperus
Reiterating the same speech, well beseeming a souldier, resolute in Iesus Christ, as I can testifie he was.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. by Richard Hakluyt
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 Sir Walter Scott
Meekness is so beseeming every man, that it is even humanity itself.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
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