Beneficial, advantageous, or proper; fitting or suitable.
From 'behove' (variant of 'behoove') plus '-el' suffix, or possibly influenced by forms like 'novel.' This is a very rare adjective form of the verb.
This word is so obscure that etymologists debate whether it even exists as a genuine historical form or is merely a theoretical possibility that appears in no actual texts.
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