behove
verb (used with or without object)
a variant of behoove.
behoved
Example Sentences
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It behoved him to work on her feelings, to plead with her, to weep, to pray.
From Starvecrow Farm by Stanley J. Weyman
Then, in no long time--being a soldier--I recovered my coolness, and, retaining the power to think, decided what it behoved me to do.
From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley J. Weyman
He was not affiliated to the society, nor had the remotest ambition of becoming so; for he knew that it behoved not one of his order to join in such movements as this.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
How it behoved her to despise herself, loathe herself, discipline herself!
From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman
He, Terence, was going away so soon--never, in all probability, to look upon Ireland or his family again--that it behoved him to carry as few regrets as might be to his prison.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
