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behoove

behoove is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.[Also written behove.]
  2. 2.To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due. Chaucer.
  3. 3.Advantage; behoof. [Obs.] It shall not be to his behoove. Gower.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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