befit
verb (used with object)
to be proper or appropriate for; suit; fit.
will befit
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future tenseof befit.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Replied the wife of her craft and cursedness, "Haply, O my lord, the horsekeeper will befit us not;", yet the while she had set her heart upon him.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Wherein also, for your good hereafter, and for your friends, it will befit to note their buildings, Furnitures, Entertainments; all their Husbandry, and ingenious inventions, in whatsoever concerneth either Pleasure or Profit.
From The Mystery of Francis Bacon by William T. Smedley
The way is prepared for As You Like It and the Tempest; the language is discovered which will befit the lips of Rosalind and Miranda.
From A Study of Shakespeare by Edmund Gosse
They will be such as will befit an English gentleman; good in material but sober in colour, for the Huguenots eschew bright hues.
From Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Thou art tall and large of limb, and armour will befit thee well, and practice will soon bring thee the needful skill in handling weapons.
From Tales from Spenser; Chosen from the Faerie Queene by Edmund Spencer
