Befits

/bɪˈfɪts/ verb

To be appropriate, suitable, or proper for someone or something; to be fitting or worthy of.

From Old English 'be-' (a prefix meaning thoroughly) combined with 'fit,' which may derive from Proto-Germanic roots. The word has meant 'to be appropriate' since at least the 13th century.

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