behooven

Verb

behoove (third-person singular simple present behooves, present participle behooving, simple past behooved, past participle behooved or (rare) behooven)

1. (US, transitive) To befit, be appropriate or necessary to somebody. Alternative form of behove.
   • It ill behooves my mother to complain.
2. (intransitive) To be fitting.
   • It behooved that the Sonne of God suld descend unto us, and tak himselfe a bodie of our bodie, flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bones, and so become the Mediator betwixt God and man, giving power to so many as beleeve in him, to be the sonnes of God; […]1560, [John Knox et al.], “Confessio Fidei Scoticana I. The Scotch Confession of Faith. A.D. 1560.”, in The Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical Notes. … In Three Volumes, 4th revised...