behoof
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Is behoof a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (dated) That which is advantageous to a person; behalf, interest, advantage, profit, benefit.Examples: "This tongue hath parley’d unto foreign kings For your behoof,—"; "1676, Joseph Glanvill, Essays on Several Important Subjects in Philosophy and Religion, London: John Baker & Henry Mortlock, Essay 7, “The Summe of My Lord Bacon’s NEW ATLANTIS,” p. 58, […] very useful for a Divine, and like to be of more behoof to him, than all the tedious volumes of the Schoolmen […]"; "The great Watch-Coat was purchased and given above two hundred Years ago, by the Lord of the Manor, to this Parish-Church, to the sole Use and Behoof of the poor Sextons thereof, and their Successors, for ever, to be worn up them respectively in winterly cold Nights […]"countabledateduncountable
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