Lexicographical Neighbors of Besits
Literary usage of Besits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1912)
"Me ill besits, that in der-doing * armes And honours suit my vowed dales do spend,
Unto thy bounteous ..."
2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"2.19 ; ' It well besits', Holland, Plutarch's Morals, 227. Cp. use of F. seoir,
to sit, also, to fit, suit, sit properly on (Hatzfeld). ..."
3. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1823)
"“Gentlemen, if we shall prove. the publication, I have no besits.. ,, tion in
anticipating what will ..."
4. Roman Private Law in the Times of Cicero and of the Antonines by Henry John Roby (1902)
"Savigny besits § 8). The legal character of possession in itself is independent
of moral characteristics: 1n summa possessions non multum interest juste ..."
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