"beseeming" meaning in English

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          "text": "Her Veſt, with Flow'rs of Gold embroider'd o'er, / With Grief diſtreſs'd, the mournful Matron tore, / And a beſeeming Suit of gloomy Sable wore.",
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          "text": "I am Sir / The Souldier that did company theſe three / In poor beſeeming: 't was a fitment for / The purpoſe I then follow'd.",
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          "text": "His sword fell from his grasp—his eye, late glaring with the ire of a stricken tiger,—his brow, late speaking but death, and dark defiance, suddenly sank into the soft beseeming of gratefulness, and of betokened kindness and feeling.",
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