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behoveful
a. (context archaic English) Needful or proper; behove; beneficial.
Usage examples of "behoveful".
To very perfect penitence are behoveful and necessary three things: contrition of heart, confession of mouth, and satisfaction.
The inconveniencies of one kind have caused sundry others to be devised, so that, in a word, all public regimen, of what kind soever, seemeth evidently to have risen from the deliberate advice, consultation and composition between men, judging it convenient and behoveful, there being no impossibility in Nature, considered by itself, but that man might have lived without any public regimen.