behooven

English

Verb

behooven

  1. (rare) past participle of behoove
    • 1952 July 8, H. T. Matson, “Once a Week”, in The Daily Colonist, 94th year, number 175, Victoria, B.C., page 2, column 1:
      Bad as they were, one perforce felt masculinely behooven to admire their courage . . . conversely, one could not refrain from meanly wondering just where and for how long they’d been secretly practicing . . . however, applause and many encores (from bilge to crow’s nest) greeted all antics from our two Pavlovas . . . and reflectively, their presentations were far less hurtful than having to listen to the amateur squeakings of scrawny, self-imagined sopranos and contraltos who habitually appeared at well-remembered ship’s concerts in bygone years.
    • 1954, “Class Prophecy”, in The Beacon, Boston, Mass.: Suffolk University:
      Now it behooves me as it has never behooven me before, to bid you farewell with the warning, “Don’t let this happen to you.”
    • 2005, Simon Winchester, “The Most Perfect Hotel in the World”, in Don George, editor, By the Seat of My Pants: Humorous Tales of Travel and Misadventure, Melbourne, Vic.: Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN, pages 228–229:
      No, she reported later, her husband did not take any note whatsoever of the notice, and as a result he was not behooven to avoid doing what he, as a towering literary agent, seems to have been born to do, and that was to telephone.
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