behoove

behooveverb/bɪˈhuːv/

• 1

  To befit, be appropriate or necessary to somebody. Alternative form of behove.

  • It ill behooves my mother to complain.
  • Straighter he stood, and had achieved some praise / In other exercise, much more behooving / A soldier's taste than merely dirt removing.
• 2

  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; […]
  • Now, while discoursing of sperm, it behooves to speak of other things akin to it, in the business of preparing the sperm whale for the try-works.