[f. BECOME v.]
1. The action of befitting or gracing; that which befits or graces. rare.
c. 1600. Shaks., Sonn., 150. Whence hast thou this becomming of things ill.
1606. Shaks., Ant. & Cl., I. iii. 96. My becommings kill me, when they do not Eye well to you.
2. A coming to be, a passing into a state.
1853. Robertson, Serm., Ser. III. xi. 139. Everything else is in a state of becoming, God is in a state of Being.
1860. Pusey, Min. Proph., 613. Our life is a ‘becoming’ rather than a simple ‘being.’
