[f. as prec. + -NESS.] Beseeming quality; fitness, becomingness.

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1656.  J. Ferguson, On Coloss., 142. [It] doth not import a dignity or worth in our walking, to recompence the Lord, but onely a beseemingnesse.

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1840.  Browning, Sordello, I. 282. Till two or three amassed Mankind’s beseemingnesses.

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