becomingness
Example Sentences
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Poem to Phyllis, congratulating her on the becomingness of her Easter hat.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2019
Much as she disliked the idea of Blue Bonnet's putting up her hair, she could not deny the becomingness of it.
From Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's by John Goss
In the course of her search she happened to recognise her bandbox and conceive a desire to reassure herself as to the becomingness of its contents.
From The Bandbox by Louis Joseph Vance
Apparently he did not think the posture to which it invited one of sufficient dignity; for during the whole journey, and even when asleep, I observed that he maintained a certain becomingness of posture.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various
There is a becomingness in all the actions of pure and holy love.
From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr