behove vs demand

behove

verb
  • To be necessary for (someone). 

  • To befit, to suit. 

  • To be in the best interest of; to benefit. 

  • To be needful, meet or becoming. 

demand

verb
  • To require of someone. 

  • To claim a right to something. 

  • To ask forcefully for information. 

  • To request forcefully. 

  • To issue a summons to court. 

noun
  • An urgent request. 

  • The desire to purchase goods and services. 

  • An order. 

  • The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price. 

  • A forceful claim for something. 

  • A requirement. 

  • More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval. 

How often have the words behove and demand occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )