beseeming
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Fr. convenable, apt, fit, meet for, beseeming, seemlie, &c.
From Caxton's Book of Curtesye by Furnivall, Frederick James
For many of them breathe of a national spirit not beseeming a subject nation, and have been suppressed for many years.
From Armenian Legends and Festivals by Boettiger, Louis A.
And made Verona's ancient citizens Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments To wield old partisans.
From Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by Devereux, W. Cope
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 Hakluyt, Richard
It was a quiet, sombre, clerical house, beseeming such a man as the warden, and thus he afterwards frequented it.
From The Warden by Trollope, Anthony
