Behoof
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /bɪˈhuːf/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Behoof is a noun meaning (dated) That which is advantageous to a person; behalf, interest, advantage, profit, benefit.
Meaning
(dated) That which is advantageous to a person; behalf, interest, advantage, profit, benefit.
Example Sentences
This tongue hath parley’d unto foreign kings For your behoof,—
Often fightings broke out among the contenders in the same post for the loaves of power and other behoofs and such matters made headlines in newspapers.
They had parents in India—that much Octavian had learned in the neighbourhood; the children, beyond grouping themselves garment-wise into sexes, a girl and two boys, carried their life-story no further on his behoof.
The great Watch-Coat was purchased and given above two hundred Years ago, by the Lord of the Manor, to this Parish-Church, to the sole Use and Behoof of the poor Sextons thereof, and their Successors, for ever, to be worn up them respectively in winterly cold Nights […]
Word Forms
- behoofs
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include behalf, avail, benefit, profit, profiting, cause.
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