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Behoof definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BEHOOF', n.
1. Radically, need, necessity; whence, by an easy analogy, the word came to signify that which supplies want. Hence, in present usage.
2. That which is advantageous; advantage; profit; benefit.
No mean recompense it brings to your behoof.

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English behof, from Old English beh?f profit, need; akin to Old English hebban to raise — more at heave Date: before 12th century advantage, profit <for his own behoof>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. archaic (prec. by to, for, on; foll. by of) benefit; advantage. Etymology: OE behof

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Behoof Be*hoof", n. [OE. to bihove for the use of, AS. beh?f advantage, a word implied in beh?fl[=i]c necessary; akin to Sw. behof, Dan. behov, G. behuf, and E. heave, the root meaning to seize, hence the meanings ``to hold, make use of.'' See Heave, v. t.] Advantage; profit; benefit; interest; use. No mean recompense it brings To your behoof. --Milton.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Advantage, benefit, profit, interest, account. See behalf.

Moby Thesaurus

advantage, avail, behalf, benefit, benison, blessing, boon, convenience, gain, good, interest, percentage, point, profit, service, use, value, welfare, well-being, world of good, worth