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fitting
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. be agreeable or acceptable to; "This suits my needs" [syn: suit , accommodate ] be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired; "This piece won't fit into the puzzle" [syn: go ] satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"proper, befitting, right," early 15c., present-participle adjective from fit (v.). Related: Fittingly .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a fitting climax (= a very suitable one ) ▪ The concert was a very successful occasion and a fitting climax to the school year. a fitting end to sth (= right for a particular situation or occasion ) ▪ The fireworks ...
Usage examples of fitting.
If he refuses to return and abjure his heresy and give fitting satisfaction, he is delivered to the secular Court to be punished.
I for one think it behooves us to find a more fitting way to salute Rome and Romulus than acrimonious and ill-mannered meetings of the Senate.
Making the trip down ten flights would be the ultimate way to flip off her agoraphobia, a fitting cap to her week of desensitization and self-improvement.
I hastened to the aperture, and under the crustations of coral, covered with fungi, syphonules, alcyons, madrepores, through myriads of charming fish--girelles, glyphisidri, pompherides, diacopes, and holocentres--I recognised certain debris that the drags had not been able to tear up--iron stirrups, anchors, cannons, bullets, capstan fittings, the stem of a ship, all objects clearly proving the wreck of some vessel, and now carpeted with living flowers.
By it I request my very reverend archbishop in Christ, the father of the metropolitan church of the city of Manila, and charge the venerable and devout fathers-provincial and other superiors of all the orders in the territory of his archbishopric, to note that they are to inform my governor of the said islands whenever such cases shall occur to the prejudice of my treasury, and that the culprits be punished as is fitting.
Ingersoll, removed the prejudices that many persons formerly had against Socialism on account of the atheistic teachings of its leaders, it seems but fitting to give a short refutation of the deceptive argument and to point out the absurdity of the comparison just mentioned.
Extreme priority will be given to fitting out ships to catapult or otherwise launch fighter aircraft against bombers attacking our shipping.
It had been assembled twenty-five years previously when the first colonists arrived, and its austere fittings were showing their age.
They were the usual wireless fitments, bakelite knobs fitting snugly to the steel shafts that projected from the front panel.
Further, if others were baptized with that baptism, this was only in order that they might be prepared for the baptism of Christ: and thus it would seem fitting that the baptism of John should be conferred on all, old and young, Gentile and Jew, just as the baptism of Christ.
Much less fitting, therefore, was it for the Gentiles to be baptized by John.
It was not fitting that Christ should be baptized by John either before or after all others.
Therefore it was not fitting that Christ should be baptized in the Jordan.
Therefore it was fitting that Christ should be baptized in the Jordan.
And therefore it was fitting that Christ should be baptized in the Jordan rather than in the sea.