2. Noun. (psychology) An individual whose behaviour is being monitored or studied. ¹
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Definition of Behaver
1. one that behaves [n -S] - See also: behaves
Lexicographical Neighbors of Behaver
Literary usage of Behaver
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1888)
"If we had reason to suppose that the earliest forms behavour, behaver, represented
an earlier ... behave received its behaver, behavour, ..."
2. Ecclesiastical and Other Sketches of Southington, Conn. by Heman Rowlee Timlow (1875)
"... AND IDEL behaver." At a Cort holden at Farmington In and for hartford County
may the 31 1758 presant Jared Lee Just peace for sd County Zachariah ..."
3. The Journal of Negro History by Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, inc (1919)
"My age is—24—years good healt good behaver goof record in the south this is all
to tell now but if you would Like to no My record i ..."
4. The Dangerous classes of New York and twenty years' work among them by Charles Loring Brace (1872)
"The best of you will bo something short of judges and governors, and the feller
as lias the worst luck—and the worst behaver in the groceries— will be very ..."
5. Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle (1898)
"Sunday, and his wickedness was specified by the justice of peace as follows: — "
A Rude and Idel behaver in the meeting hous. ..."
6. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, New York (State). Governor, 1801-1804 (George Clinton), Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). State Historian (1902)
"... I was put under a Bond for my good behaver: . I must informe your Excellency,
that the Conditional Part ..."
7. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1906)
"The reson of the behaver of these People is thay Never Saw a trader Before On
thare One Ground or at Least Saw a Bale of Goods Opend. ..."
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