behoveful
English
Etymology
From Middle English behoveful, equivalent to behoof + -ful.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: be‧hove‧ful
Adjective
behoveful (comparative more behoveful, superlative most behoveful)
- (archaic) Needful or proper; beneficial; behoving.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, First Folio 1623, IV.3:
- No Madam, we haue cul'd such necessaries / As are behoouefull for our state to morrow […].
- 1600, Christopher Sutton, Disce Mori: Learn to Die, 1839 ed. edition, Chapter IV:
- How behoveful it is for every Christian man soberly to meditate of his end.
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- 1591, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, First Folio 1623, IV.3:
Alternative forms
- behoofful
- behooveful (US)
Derived terms
- behovefully
- behovefulness (unattested; appears only in dictionaries)