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Behoveful means (archaic) Needful or proper; beneficial; behoving..
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/bɪˈhəʊvfəl/ · adjective
(archaic) Needful or proper; beneficial; behoving..
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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Behoveful means (archaic) Needful or proper; beneficial; behoving..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
No Madam, we haue cul'd such necessaries / As are behoouefull for our state to morrow[…].
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