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Definition of Beseeming
1. n. Appearance; look; garb.
2. a. Becoming; suitable.
Definition of Beseeming
1. Verb. (present participle of beseem) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Beseeming
1. beseem [v] - See also: beseem
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beseeming
Literary usage of Beseeming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Russell's Magazine by Paul Hamilton Payne (1859)
"... for truly estimating those whose virtues, noble deeds and sufferings should
bid us refrain from disparagements, and '• In mutual, well-beseeming ranks, ..."
2. The Book of Elizabethan Verse by William Stanley Braithwaite (1907)
"Above the rest were goodly to bee scene Two gentle Knights of lovely face and
feature, beseeming well the bower of anie Queene, With gifts of wit, ..."
3. The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by James Gillman (1838)
"Meantime, " believe me, with great respect, " Your obliged fellow-student " of
the true and the beseeming " ST COLERIDGE." ".DEAR SIR, Sept. 20th, 1818. ..."
4. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness (1913)
"Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments, To wield old partisans, in hands as old,
Canker'd with peace, to part your canker'd hate : If ever you disturb our ..."
5. A Selection from the Writings of the Reformers and Early Protestant Divines by Legh Richmond (1817)
"Amen. in so humble an abasement of himself, and with ?u deceitful a reverence,
as is beseeming so unspeakable a Majesty, and I will yield him the victory. ..."
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