Lexicographical Neighbors of Besitting
Literary usage of Besitting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"Middleton, Blurt, Mr. Constable, i. 1 (Violetta). besit, to suit, befit. Spenser,
FQ ii. 7. 10; besitting, befitting, id. iv. ..."
2. The British poets, including translations by British poets (1822)
"And that which is for Ladies most besitting, To stint all strife, and foster
friendly peace, Was from those Dames so farre and so unfitting., As that, ..."
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