"behoveful" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English behoveful, equivalent to behoof + -ful.",
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      "form": "more behoveful",
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      "form": "most behoveful",
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    "be‧hove‧ful"
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "behovefully"
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          "word": "behovefulness"
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          "ref": "1600, Christopher Sutton, chapter IV, in Disce Mori: Learn to Die, published 1839",
          "text": "How behoveful it is for every Christian man soberly to meditate of his end.",
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        "Needful or proper; beneficial; behoving."
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          "Needful",
          "needful"
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          "proper",
          "proper"
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          "beneficial",
          "beneficial"
        ],
        [
          "behoving",
          "behove"
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        "(archaic) Needful or proper; beneficial; behoving."
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          "word": "behoofful"
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  "word": "behoveful"
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      "word": "behovefully"
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      "word": "behovefulness"
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English behoveful, equivalent to behoof + -ful.",
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      "form": "more behoveful",
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        "superlative"
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    "be‧hove‧ful"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "Needful or proper; beneficial; behoving."
      ],
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          "beneficial",
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          "behoving",
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        "(archaic) Needful or proper; beneficial; behoving."
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  "word": "behoveful"
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