befitting

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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befit (bɪˈfɪt)

—vb , -fits, -fitting, -fitted
	(tr) to be appropriate to or suitable for

[C15: from be- + fit¹]

be'fitting

—*adj*

be'fittingly

—*adv*

befit (bɪˈfɪt)

—vb , -fits, -fitting, -fitted
	(tr) to be appropriate to or suitable for

[C15: from be- + fit¹]

be'fitting

—*adj*

be'fittingly

—*adv*

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befit

mid-15c., from be- + fit (v.).

befitting

1560s, prp. adj. from befit (q.v.).

Example sentences

As befitting such an awesome event, full eruptions are entirely unpredictable.

Most new profs live in a manner befitting a peasant.

And befitting its name, the core of the band was two powerhouse percussionists.

Design ideas shall maintain a dignity befitting the nation's coinage.

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Matching Quote

"Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts."

-Ursula K. Le Guin