Past tense of behove; was necessary or proper for someone.
Past tense of 'behove,' the spelling variant of 'behooved.' Both past forms exist in historical texts with identical meaning.
Finding 'behoved' in texts is like finding a linguistic fossil—it's a past tense of an already-archaic word, making it doubly removed from modern usage.
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