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Behoove   /bɪhˈuv/   Listen
Behoove

verb
(past & past part. behooved; pres. part. behooving)  (Also written behove)
1.
Be appropriate or necessary.  Synonym: behove.





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"Behoove" Quotes from Famous Books



... he is such a rigid observer of etiquette, it would best behoove him to remember that as yet he has not even proffered the usual atonement for shedding the blood of her kin, and that his life is therefore at her disposal. Tristan, seeing she is bent upon revenge, haughtily hands her his sword, telling her that, since Morold was so dear to her, ...
— Stories of the Wagner Opera • H. A. Guerber
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... broad moonlight, was a strange group: a carriage and what seemed to me many horses and many men. I thought for a moment I had landed upon a nest of bandits such as might easily infest a forest like this, and it would behoove me to steal silently back to the horses and make good my escape; but I caught a glimpse of petticoats: they were not ...
— The Rose of Old St. Louis • Mary Dillon
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Words linked to "Behoove" :   meet, conform to, fit


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