a. Obs. [UN-1 7.] Not profitable or useful; unnecessary.
1429. Rolls of Parlt., V. 417/2. [Fortresses and places] suche as shall be thoght … unbehovefull.
c. 1520. Barclay, Jugurtha, 4 b. Neuertheles so to do it is vnbehouefull & vnexpedyent.
1619. W. Sclater, Exp. 1 Thess. (1630), 554. Things lawfull in themselues may be vnseemely for our state and calling; vnbehouefull also to benefit of others.
1624. Bp. Mountagu, New Gagg, 205. We hold it needlesse,… as unbehoovefull, and to no purpose.
1648. Hexham, II. Onbehoeflick, Vnbehovefull.
