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verb (behov, ing)
  1. To suit; to befit.
Nor does it western commentators whose countries are occupying Iraq to lay down conditions for those opposing it. http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1076480,00.html
It behoves the Government to take note of that. http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200001/cmhansrd/vo010116/debtext/10116-23.htm
"It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own." -Thomas Jefferson http://www.quoteworld.org/quotes/12163
True, it ill behoves national newspaper columnists and MPs, let alone Prime Ministers, to start pontificating about how men " and hitherto a too tiny handful of women " shouldn't be paid £30,000 a year to risk their lives by going into burning buildings when everybody else is leaving them. http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_m_z/donald_macintyre/article132811.ece

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