[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being becoming; fitness, suitability; graceful propriety or fitness.
1657. W. Dillingham, in Sir F. Vere’s Comm., Pref. A iv. The becomingness of the stile did much affect me.
1690. Norris, Beatitudes (1692), 214. A kind of Congruity or Becomingness on God’s part so to do.
1866. Felton, Anc. & Mod. Greece, I. i. 283. A propriety and becomingness of demeanour.
1876. Miss Yonge, Womankind, xv. 116. Taking questions of complexion and becomingness into account.
