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▪ I. becoming, vbl. n.|bɪˈkʌmɪŋ|
[f. become v.]
1. The action of befitting or gracing; that which befits or graces. rare.
c1600Shakes. Sonn. 150 Whence hast thou this becomming of things ill. 1606― 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.
1853Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. xi. 139 Everything else is in a state of becoming, God is in a state of Being. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 613 Our life is a ‘becoming’ rather than a simple ‘being.’
▪ II. beˈcoming, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. Befitting, suitable, having graceful fitness.
1565Sc. Metr. Ps. cxxxiii. 1 How good a thing it is and how becoming well. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. ii. i. 67 Within the limits of becoming mirth. 1686W. de Britaine Hum. Prud. §4. 19 Let your Behaviour, like your Garment, be..fit and becoming. 1713Guardian No. 1 ⁋1 Coming up to town in a very becoming periwig. 1833H. Martineau Cinn. & Pearls i. 4 He spoke with becoming indifference of all meaner accomplishments.
2. the becoming:
a. that which is befitting or proper; decorum.
1842Realities of Life 207 Some of whom..study the becoming in their own persons. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 540 Selfcommand and a fine sense of the becoming.
b. that which is coming into existence.
1856Ferrier Inst. Metaph. xvii. xvii. 349 The usual synonym for this was the Becoming (τὸ γιγνόµενον), that is, inchoate existence. |
