beseeming

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English

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Etymology

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From beseem +‎ -ing.

Adjective

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beseeming (comparative more beseeming, superlative most beseeming)

  1. Becoming, befitting, suitable.

Derived terms

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Noun

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beseeming (usually uncountable, plural beseemings) (obsolete)

  1. Appearance; look.
    • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vi], page 398, column 2:
      I am Sir / The Souldier that did company theſe three / In poor beſeeming: 't was a fitment for / The purpoſe I then follow'd.
    • 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:
      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.
  2. gerund of beseem: a comely appearance; attractiveness.

Verb

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beseeming

  1. present participle and gerund of beseem