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behoof

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6 lettersPronunciation /bɪˈhuːf/Sorted befhooStarts with BEnds with F0 clues
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Definitions

  1. That which is advantageous to a person; behalf, interest, advantage, profit, benefit.

Word origin

From Middle English behoof, behof, from Old English behōf, from Proto-West Germanic *bihōf. Akin to Dutch behoef, German Behuf (“necessity”), Danish behov (“requirement”) (from Middle Low German). Related to have and heave.

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  • This tongue hath parley’d unto foreign kings For your behoof,—
  • 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.
  • 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.

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