Read full poem →Loud o're the rest Cremona's Trump doth sound;
Me softer airs befit, and softer strings
Of Lute, or Viol still, more apt for mournful things.
Dictionary Entry
To be fit for
In a Sentence
“His conduct was not befitting an officer of his station.”
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Common Phrases
befit illbefit well
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Poetry examples for “befit”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Loud o're the rest Cremona's Trump doth sound;
Me softer airs befit, and softer strings
Of Lute, or Viol still, more apt for mournful things.
Read full poem →bars of secrecy, being capable of shaping into grandeur
and wonder, which Brade would well befit both in body
and Bpint, and also, being capable of unstinted stretch
Read full poem →Such ill-tim'd gravity, such serious folly,
Might well befit the solitary student,
Th' unpractis'd dervis, or sequester'd faquir.