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Behove

verb
1.
Be appropriate or necessary.  Synonym: behoove.






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"Behove" Quotes from Famous Books



... each other. But poor Mrs. Furnival was too ponderous for this mounting late in life, and she had not been asked to Noningsby. She was much too good a mother to repine at her daughter's promised gaiety. Sophia was welcome to go; but by all the laws of God and man it would behove her lord and husband to eat his ...
— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope

... commonly said, that when the summons came he spoke out of his bed and said, Tell them I have got summons already before a superior judge and judicatory, and I behove to answer my last summons, and ere your day come I will be where few kings and great folks come. When they returned and told he was a-dying, the parliament put to a vote, Whether or not to let him die in the college. It carried, ...
— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie



Words linked to "Behove" :   fit, conform to, meet



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