BECOMINGS
Noun
becomings
plural of becoming
Anagrams
• becomsing
Source: Wiktionary
BECOMING
Be*com"ing, a.
Definition: Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray.
Note: Formerly sometimes followed by of. Such discourses as are becoming of them. Dryden.
Syn.
– Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.
Be*com"ing, n.
Definition: That which is becoming or appropriate. [Obs.]
BECOME
Be*come", v. i. [imp. Became; p. p. Become; p. pr. & vb. n. Becoming.] Etym: [OE. bicumen, becumen, AS. becuman to come to, to happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come upon, G. bekommen to get, suit. See Be-, and Come.]
1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new character. The Lord God . . . breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen. ii. 7. That error now which is become my crime. Milton.
2. To come; to get. [Obs.] But, madam, where is Warwick then become! Shak. To become of, to be the present state or place of; to be the fate of; to be the end of; to be the final or subsequent condition of. What is then become of so huge a multitude Sir W. Raleigh.
Be*come", v. t.
Definition: To suit or be suitable to; to be congruous with; to befit; to accord with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of, or proper for; to cause to appear well; -- said of persons and things. It becomes me so to speak of so excellent a poet. Dryden. I have known persons so anxious to have their dress become them, as to convert it, at length, into their proper self, and thus actually to become the dress. Coleridge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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