becomingnessn.
/bᵻˈkʌmɪŋnᵻs/, U.S. /bəˈkəmɪŋnᵻs/, /biˈkəmɪŋnᵻs/ The quality of being becoming; fitness, suitability; graceful propriety or fitness.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun] > fittingness or propriety
righteousnessOE
duea1425
properness1531
decency1567
dueness1576
decorum1586
fitness1597
orthotes1605
propriety1612
befittingnessa1645
beseemlinessa1645
fittingness1653
becomeness1656
beseemingness1656
becomingness1657
condecency1662
competibleness1667
decence1678
1657 W. Dillingham in F. Vere Commentaries Ep. to Rdr. sig. A4 The becomingness of the stile did much affect me.
1690 J. Norris Christian Blessedness 212 A kind of Congruity or Becomingness on God's part so to do.
1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 283 A propriety and becomingness of demeanour.
1876 C. M. Yonge Womankind xv. 116 Taking questions of complexion and becomingness into account.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1657- hand something to a person on a plate
- hand something to a person on a platter
- hand something to a person on a silver platter
- hand something to on a plate
- hand span
- hand specimen
- hand spectroscope
- hand stitch
- hand stripe
- hand table
- hand taut
- hand telescope
- hand tennis
- hand the mitten
- hand the saw
- hand thinning
- hand timber
- hand to a person on a plate
- hand to fist
- hand to hand
- hand to mouth
- hand to on a plate
- hand toil
- hand tool
- hand touch