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Definition of Besoming
1. besom [v] - See also: besom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Besoming
Literary usage of Besoming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. God's Rescues, Or The Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin, and the Lost Son: Three by William R. Williams (1871)
"Would you put that shaking and besoming peremptorily and effectually down ?
We hear, behind the turmoil and the thick streaming clouds of dust, ..."
2. Transactions by Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Norwick Eng, Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1879)
"The small area of the British Isles, and some other portions of the adjacent
continent, are now besoming pretty well known; but the geological ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1854)
"... but they were reversed in their appearance, the black incised lines of the
original besoming white in the rubbing. For white or light-coloured paper Mr. ..."
4. Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey and Delaware, 1630-1707 by Albert Cook Myers (1912)
"In the meantime the paper is besoming too small for me, the quills blunt, the
ink will not longer flow, there is no more oil in the lamp, it is already late ..."
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