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Behoove

//bɪˈhuːv// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To befit, be appropriate or necessary to somebody. Alternative form of behove. US, transitive

    "It ill behooves my mother to complain."

  2. 2
    be appropriate or necessary wordnet
  3. 3
    To be fitting. intransitive

    "It behooved that the Sonne of God suld descend unto us, and tak himselfe a bodie of our bodie, flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bones, and so become the Mediator betwixt God and man, giving power to so many as beleeve in him, to be the sonnes of God; […]"

Etymology

See behove.

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