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单词 beseem
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Definition of beseem in US English:

beseem

verb bəˈsēmbəˈsimbəˈsim
[with object]archaic
  • Seem; befit.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was now near fifty - grave, as beseemed his profession - somewhat dry - and a little severe, perhaps - but a just man.
    • It was a quiet, sombre, clerical house, beseeming such a man as the warden, and thus he afterwards frequented it.
    • She hopes that this will help them to locate the loan that beseems their expectations.
    • Thus it beseems a captain to conceal the secrets of his mind so that the enemy may not know his purpose.
    • We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.
 
 

Definition of beseem in US English:

beseem

verbbəˈsēmbəˈsim
[with object]archaic
  • Seem; befit.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Thus it beseems a captain to conceal the secrets of his mind so that the enemy may not know his purpose.
    • She hopes that this will help them to locate the loan that beseems their expectations.
    • We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.
    • He was now near fifty - grave, as beseemed his profession - somewhat dry - and a little severe, perhaps - but a just man.
    • It was a quiet, sombre, clerical house, beseeming such a man as the warden, and thus he afterwards frequented it.
 
 
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