LekhoriLekhoriOf behavior, appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming.
His behavior was seemly, as befits a gentleman.
Appropriately, fittingly.
The great earthes wombe they open to the sky, / And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue [...].
From Middle English semly, semely, semelich, from Old Norse sœmiligr (“seemly”); equivalent to seem + -ly. Cognate with Icelandic sæmilegur (“seemly, passable”), Danish sømmelig (“seemly”).
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