This tongue hath parley’d unto foreign kings For your behoof,—
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Behoof
//bɪˈhuːf//
Synonyms for "behoof" (21 found)
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3 translations across 2 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- изгода noun (advantage or benefit)
- полза noun (advantage or benefit)
Italian
1 entries- vantaggio noun (advantage or benefit)
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1676, Joseph Glanvill, Essays on Several Important Subjects in Philosophy and Religion, London: John Baker & Henry Mortlock, Essay 7, “The Summe of My Lord Bacon’s NEW ATLANTIS,” p. 58, […] very useful for a Divine, and like to be of more behoof to him, than all the tedious volumes of the Schoolmen […]
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The great Watch-Coat was purchased and given above two hundred Years ago, by the Lord of the Manor, to this Parish-Church, to the sole Use and Behoof of the poor Sextons thereof, and their Successors, for ever, to be worn up them respectively in winterly cold Nights […]
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1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, Men’s Wives, New York: Appleton, “The Ravenswing,” Chapter 4, p. 119, Poor Larkins had no one to make epigrams in her behoof; her mother was at home tending the younger ones, her father abroad following the studies of his profession, she had but one protector, as she thought, and that one was Baroski.
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