Crossword clues for behoove
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Behoove \Be*hoove"\, n. Advantage; behoof. [Obs.]
It shall not be to his behoove.
--Gower.
Behoove \Be*hoove"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Behooved; p. pr. & vb. n. Behooving.] [OE. bihoven, behoven, AS. beh?fian to have need of, fr. beh?f. See Behoof.] To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally.
And thus it behooved Christ to suffer.
--Luke xxiv.
46.
Behoove \Be*hoove"\, v. i.
To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as
due.
--Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English behofian "to have need of, have use for," verbal form of the ancient compound word represented by behoof.\n\nHistorically, it rimes with move, prove, but being now mainly a literary word, it is generally made to rime with rove, grove, by those who know it only in books.
[OED]
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context US English) To suit; to befit 2 (context US English) To be necessary 3 (context US English) To be in one's best interest; to benefit
WordNet
v. be appropriate or necessary; "IT behooves us to reflect on this matter" [syn: behove]
Usage examples of "behoove".
I for one think it behooves us to find a more fitting way to salute Rome and Romulus than acrimonious and ill-mannered meetings of the Senate.
For two reasons it behooved others besides Christ to be baptized with the baptism of John.
Still, he conceded, where the safety of an eggling was the stake, it behooved an adult to be seven-times prudent.
It behooved her to learn as much as she could, before Julie decided there was no sense in running free classes in merchandising for a potential competitor.
It behooved him now to make use of the Wonderstone to gain the knowledge stored in that underground vault.
It behooves, therefore, the American builder to examine well his premises, to ascertain the actual requirements of his farm or plantation, in convenience and accommodation, and build only to such extent, and at such cost as shall not impoverish his means, nor cause him future disquietude.
We should then be brought to acknowledge that it behooves a Christian traveller to crave the assistance of Him who can enable us to suffer with becoming fortitude and resignation all the afflicting dispensations of life, rather than desire to be preserved from meeting them.
Consequently, it behooved all things appertaining to glory, whether they regard the soul, as the perfect fruition of God, or whether they regard the body, as the glorious resurrection, to be first in Christ as the author of glory: but that grace should be first in those that were ordained unto Christ.
Consequently, since it behooved a man, being of the nobler sex, to assume, it was becoming that the liberation of the female sex should be manifested in that man being born of a woman.
Hence it behooved the soul of Christ to be perfected by a knowledge, which would be its proper perfection.
Now it was necessary that even in this respect the soul of Christ should be filled with knowledge, not that the first fulness was insufficient for the human mind in itself, but that it behooved it to be also perfected with regard to phantasms.
He had a conviction that it behooved him as a man to stand by his wife during what might prove an ordeal.
Since there apparently was not going to be a battle, at least not immediately, it behooved her to receive these strangers in statesmanlike fashion.
And while one would never suggest or encourage the adoption of extralegal resistance of what, after all, will be a legitimate, properly approved world government, it also behooves us to resist the potential abuse of power by the cabal which has obviously come together to secure the Ternathian domination of the entire explored multiverse.
There were emergencies when the Hillcrest doctor and minister were in demand, so it behooved St.