Present participle of behove; the process of being necessary or proper for someone.
Present participle of 'behove,' using the standard '-ing' suffix, parallel to 'behooving' but based on the spelling variant.
The existence of variant participial forms like 'behoving' and 'behooving' shows how English spelling and morphology were fluid until standardization, leaving us with multiple 'correct' forms.
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