beseemingnessn.
Beseeming quality; fitness, becomingness.
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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
1656 J. Fergusson On Coloss. 142 [It] doth not import a dignity or worth in our walking, to recompence the Lord, but onely a beseemingnesse.
1840 R. Browning Sordello i. 282 Till two or three amassed Mankind's beseemingnesses.
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