Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Needful; useful; fit; profitable; advantageous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Archaic Advantageous; useful; profitable.
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- adjective archaic
Needful ;useful ;fit ;profitable ;advantageous .
Etymologies
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Examples
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They are behooveful unto me, and serve my turn in three things very exquisite, requisite, and authentical.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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They are behooveful unto me, and serve my turn in three things very exquisite, requisite, and authentical.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Then did they ask a thousand questions of Don Quixote; but he would answer to none of them, and only requested them to give him some meat, and suffer him to sleep, seeing rest was most behooveful for him.
The First Part. V. Wherein Is Prosecuted Former Narration of Our Knights Misfortunes 1909
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And in this respect he did advise him, seeing he might yet command him, as one that, by receiving the order of knighthood at his hands, should very shortly become his godchild, that he should not travel from thenceforward without money and other the preventions he had then given unto him; and he should perceive himself how behooveful they would prove unto him when he least expected it.
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That I would, replied Don Quixote, forasmuch as I think the taking of a little meat would be very behooveful for me.
The First Part. II. Of the First Sally That Don Quixote Made to Seek Adventures 1909
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The other fact is, that Thyri had, by inheritance or covenant, not depending on her marriage with old Burislav, considerable properties in Wendland, which she often reflected might be not a little behooveful to her here in Norway, where her civil-list was probably but straitened.
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Wendland; which, she often reflected, might be not a little behooveful to her here in Norway, where her civil-list was probably but straitened.
Early Kings of Norway Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Further, As the design of the Heavenly Majesty is to bring his elect to glory by means, so by the means thus universal and general, as most behooveful and fit; if we consider not only the way it doth please him to work with some of his chosen, in order to this their glory, but also the trials, temptations, and other calamities they must go through thereto.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658
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They are behooveful unto me, and serve my turn in three things very exquisite, requisite, and authentical.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Majesty finds the truth of things, her graciousness will not utterly, overthrow a cause so behooveful and costly unto her. "
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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