behoveful
English
Etymology
From Middle English behoveful, equivalent to behoof + -ful.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɪˈhəʊvfəl/
- 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.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- she forsaketh and leaveth us to the hazard of fortune; and by art to quest and finde out those things that are behovefull and necessarie for our preservation […].
- 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)
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