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Behoove   Listen
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Behoove  v. t.  (past & past part. behooved; pres. part. behooving)  (Also written behove)  To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; mostly used impersonally. "And thus it behooved Christ to suffer."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Behoove" Quotes from Famous Books



... to me in a very tender way (through the tax office), and it does not behoove me to say anything which could by any possibility militate against that ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... the elder sententiously replied, "marrit on Neil McNab at fifty. Janet's labor's no going to waste. An' if you were the on'y man i' Zorra, it wad behoove me to conseeder the lassie's prospects i' the next world. Ye're ...
— Quaint Courtships • Howells & Alden, Editors



Words linked to "Behoove" :   conform to, behove, fit



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