He was now near fifty - grave, as beseemed his profession - somewhat dry - and a little severe, perhaps - but a just man.
It was a quiet, sombre, clerical house, beseeming such a man as the warden, and thus he afterwards frequented it.
She hopes that this will help them to locate the loan that beseems their expectations.
Thus it beseems a captain to conceal the secrets of his mind so that the enemy may not know his purpose.
We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.
Definition of beseem in US English:
beseem
verbbəˈsēmbəˈsim
[with object]archaic
Seem; befit.
Example sentencesExamples
Thus it beseems a captain to conceal the secrets of his mind so that the enemy may not know his purpose.
She hopes that this will help them to locate the loan that beseems their expectations.
We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.
He was now near fifty - grave, as beseemed his profession - somewhat dry - and a little severe, perhaps - but a just man.
It was a quiet, sombre, clerical house, beseeming such a man as the warden, and thus he afterwards frequented it.