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behoof

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be·hoof  (b-hf)
n.
Benefit; advantage: using public funds for their own behoof.

[Middle English bihove, from Old English behf; see kap- in Indo-European roots.]

behoof [bɪˈhuːf]
n pl -hooves
Rare advantage or profit
[Old English behōf; related to Middle High German behuof something useful; see behove]


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Gradgrind, for the general behoof of all the little pitchers.
It would be greatly for the public behoof if we women, being of mature age and church-members in good repute, should have the handling of such malefactresses as this Hester Prynne.
"Yes, young man," said he, releasing the handle of the article in question, retiring a step or two from my table, and speaking for the behoof of the landlord and waiter at the door, "I will leave that teapot alone.
 
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