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COMELY, a.

1. Properly, becoming suitable: whence, handsome graceful. Applied to person or form, it denotes symmetry or due proportion, but it expresses less than beautiful or elegant.

I have seen a son of Jesse--comely person. 1 Samuel 16 .

I will not conceal his comely proportion. Job 41 .

2. Decent suitable proper becoming suited to time, place, circumstances or persons.

Praise is comely for the upright. Psalms 33 .

It is comely that a woman pray to God uncovered? 1 Corinthians 11 .

O what a world is this, when what is comely envenoms him that bears it.

COMELY, adv. Handsomely gracefully.

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Entry for 'Comely'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​c/comely.html.
 
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