ppl. a. Highly befitting or suiting.
1530. Palsgr., 329/1. Well becommyng, bien aduenant.
1611. Cotgr., Bienseant,… well-beseeming, well-becomming.
1662. Gunning, Lent Fast, 44. This is the wel-becoming order which all Churches … do observe.
1697. Dryden, Æneis, XI. 94. A well becoming, but a weak Relief.
1831. Scott, Ct. Robt., xxxiii. A fate well-becoming his odious crimes.
1864. Burton, Scot Abr., I. ii. 102. On the brow of the industrious crofter … we may yet see the well-becoming pride … that, in the fifteenth century, took the honours and distinctions of France as a natural right.
