Meaning of behoveful | Babel Free

Definitions

Needful or proper; beneficial; behoving.

archaic

Examples

“No Madam, we haue cul'd such necessaries / As are behoouefull for our state to morrow[…].”

“How behoveful it is for every Christian man soberly to meditate of his end.”

“she forsaketh and leaveth us to the hazard of fortune; and by art to quest and finde out those things that are behovefull and necessarie for our preservation […]”

“[H]is Barons […] flatly oppoſe themſelues both to his commaund and their Countries good, denying him (vntill he vvere aſſoyled of his excommunication,) their attendance in ſo behouefull a ſeruice.”

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