Usage History of 'behoves'

The following chart shows how frequently 'behoves' appeared in printed materials over time. For example, the word 'behoves' occurred 6 times in books in 1642 and 15,179 times in 2008. From 1642 to 2008, the word 'behoves' was used a total of 304,638 times in books scanned by Google. See Reference: Google Ngram project.

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