Meaning of behooven | Babel Free

Definitions

Forma verbal. Verb. [B2]

Examples

“Bad as they were, one perforce felt masculinely behooven to admire their courage . . . conversely, one could not refrain from meanly wondering just where and for how long they’d been secretly practicing . . . however, applause and many encores (from bilge to crow’s nest) greeted all antics from our two Pavlovas . . . and reflectively, their presentations were far less hurtful than having to listen⟳ to the amateur squeakings of scrawny, self-imagined sopranos and contraltos who habitually appeared at well-remembered ship’s concerts in bygone years.”

“Now it behooves me as it has never behooven me before, to bid you farewell with the warning, “Don’t let⟳ this happen⟳ to you.””

“No, she reported later, her husband did not take⟳ any note⟳ whatsoever of the notice⟳, and as a result⟳ he was not behooven to avoid⟳ doing what he, as a towering literary agent, seems to have⟳ been born to do, and that was to telephone.”

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