becomingness
Example Sentences
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Poem to Phyllis, congratulating her on the becomingness of her Easter hat.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2019
Of the becomingness, however, there could be no doubt.
From Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's by John Goss
This thought had, perhaps unconsciously, influenced her when enlarging on the becomingness of a refined indifference to Sir Richard Calmady's deformity.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Lucas Malet
And the thing that struck me most in the look of it was not so much the cheerfulness, as the dignity;—in a true sense, the becomingness and decorousness of the ornament.
From Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by John Ruskin
On the other hand man derives pleasure from the other senses, not only for this reason, but also on account of the becomingness of the sensible object.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
