behoof

noun /bɪˈhuːf/

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

   countable, dated, uncountable

   For your behoof,—

   This tongue hath parley’d unto foreign kings

Where it comes from

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.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry behoof (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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