Behoof vs Behoove - What's the difference?
behoof | behoove | Related terms |
(archaic) Advantage or benefit.
* 1919 , (Saki), ‘The Penance’, The Toys of Peace , Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 423:
(US) To suit; to befit
* 2002 , Senator Douglas Roche,
(US) To be necessary
(US) To be in one's best interest; to benefit
* 1803 , Thomas Jefferson in a
* 2007 , Gary D. Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars , page 208
Behoove is a related term of behoof.
As a noun behoof
is advantage or benefit.As a verb behoove is
to suit; to befit.behoof
English
Noun
(en noun)- They had parents in India – that much Octavian had learned in the neighbourhood; the children, beyond grouping themselves garmentwise into sexes, a girl and two boys, carried their life-story no further on his behoof .
Quotations
* (English Citations of "behoof")References
behoove
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Alternative forms
* behove (UK)Verb
(behoov)Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Parliament of Canada:
- I think it ill behooves the Government of Canada[...] to pretend that there are not these distinctions in how each of us approaches questions of security.
letterto Benjamin Rush:
- It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others.
- "It behooves' us to be prepared. We will begin a series of atomic bomb drills ..." / "Becomes necessary, Mr. Hupfer," said Mrs. Baker, "as in 'It ' behooves us to raise our hands before we ask a question."