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beseeming

beseeming adjective: becoming, befitting, suitable. Also the gerund of beseem.

Adjective

beseeming (comparative more beseeming, superlative most beseeming)

  1. Becoming, befitting, suitable.
    • Her Veſt, with Flow'rs of Gold embroider'd o'er, / With Grief diſtreſs'd, the mournful Matron tore, / And a beſeeming Suit of gloomy Sable wore.1717, Samuel Croxall, “Book VI. [The Story of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela.]”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 202

Noun

beseeming (usually uncountable, plural beseemings)

  1. (obsolete, usually) Appearance; look.
    • I am Sir / The Souldier that did company theſe three / In poor beſeeming: 't was a fitment for / The purpoſe I then follow'd.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
    • His sword fell from his grasp—his eye, late glaring with the ire of a stricken tiger,—his brow, late speaking but death, and dark defiance, suddenly sank into the soft beseeming of gratefulness, and of betokened kindness and feeling.1843, [Henry Barkley Henderson], “The Mud Fort”, in The Bengalee or Sketches of Society in the East. […], new edition, volume I, Calcutta, West Bengal: W. Rushton, →OCLC, pages 330–331

Also used as

beseeming is also the gerund of beseem.

beseeming is also the present participle and gerund of beseem.

Forms of beseeming

Adjective
comparativemore beseeming
superlativemost beseeming
Noun
pluralbeseemings

Origin of beseeming

From beseem + -ing.

Words formed from beseeming

Questions about beseeming

What does beseeming mean?
Beseeming means becoming, befitting, suitable.
What part of speech is beseeming?
Beseeming can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near beseeming in the dictionary

  1. beseeks
  2. beseem
  3. beseemed
  4. beseemest
  5. beseemeth
  6. beseeming
  7. beseemingly
  8. beseemingness
  9. beseemings
  10. beseemly
  11. beseems

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