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Definition of Misbecame
1. misbecome [v] - See also: misbecome
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misbecame
Literary usage of Misbecame
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Alphabet of Rhetoric: With a Chapter on Elocution; Intended as a by Rossiter Johnson (1903)
"... sentence me; And, as you are a king, speak in your state, What I have done
that misbecame my place, My person, ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Having lived to a bad pur- v. To spoil the metre of verses, by • it reading them
ill. •at of Sris-tit. misbecame. part. pa. of Mis-tat/e. Ill spoken of. n. ..."
3. The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne by George Berkeley, John Dewey, Ferdinand Gregorovius, George Sampson, Annie Hamilton, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (1898)
"Upon which words of Alciphron, I, who had acted the part of an indifferent
stander-by, observed to him : That it misbecame his character and repeated ..."
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