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becomingness|bɪˈkʌmɪŋnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being becoming; fitness, suitability; graceful propriety or fitness.
1657W. Dillingham in Sir F. Vere's Comm. Pref. A iv, The becomingness of the stile did much affect me. 1690Norris Beatitudes (1692) 214 A kind of Congruity or Becomingness on God's part so to do. 1866Felton Anc. & Mod. Greece I. i. 283 A propriety and becomingness of demeanour. 1876C. M. Yonge Womankind xv. 116 Taking questions of complexion and becomingness into account. |