Behoof Definition

bĭ-ho͝of
noun
Benefit; advantage.
Using public funds for their own behoof.
American Heritage
Behalf, benefit, interest, sake, etc.
Webster's New World

(archaic) Advantage or benefit.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Behoof

Noun

Singular:
behoof
Plural:
behoofs

Origin of Behoof

  • Old English behōf, from Proto-Germanic *bihōfą, from *bihafaną (“to get, receive”). Akin to Dutch behoef, German Behuf (“necessity”), Danish behov (“requirement”) (from Middle Low German). Related to have, and heave.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English bihove from Old English behōf kap- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Behoof Sentence Examples

  • Envy, malice and uncharitableness are found in primitive society, as elsewhere, and in their behoof the mystic forces are not unfrequently unloosed by those who know how to do so.

  • Most of the magic is worked (Intichiuma in Arunta) by the members of each totem kin or group for the behoof of the totem as an article of food supply.

  • But that state transacted business on a hardly less grand scale on its own behoof.

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Words Starting With

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Words Ending With

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Words Starting With B and Ending With F

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With B6 Letter Words Ending With F