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indispensableness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being indispensable or absolutely necessary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The characteristic of being indispensable; indispensability.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without

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Examples

  • A constitutional conservatism puts liberty first and teaches the indispensableness of moderation in securing, preserving and extending its blessings.

    Conservatives Can Unite Around the Constitution 2009

  • [12] Partly to show the indispensableness of this act, it may here be stated, that, in the old Dutch fishery, a mop was used to dash the running line with water; in many other ships, a wooden piggin, or bailer, is set apart for that purpose.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • In the year 1858, the _New-York Teacher_ was made the first medium of some thoughts in substance agreeing with those set forth in the earlier part of this paper, claiming the indispensableness to true education of a more true and liberal _work_ on the part of the learner's intellectual faculties, and of a more true and logical

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy Various

  • And, surely, it is hardly necessary to argue the question as to the indispensableness of this blessed experience, in order to gain an entrance into heaven.

    The Theology of Holiness Dougan Clark

  • Another time the Bibliotaph said to the Squire, calling to mind the well-known dictum as to the indispensableness of certain books,

    The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent

  • When each contributes to the other, elements of character necessary to convenience and happiness, the mutual esteem and respect generated by the knowledge of the indispensableness of each to the other's interest, is the surest guard to amiability.

    How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony William Windsor

  • He perfectly understands the indispensableness of thorough organization, and absolute and watchful discipline.

    The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various

  • The indispensableness to religion of the imagination is due to that faculty's power of realizing what is not perceptually present.

    The Approach to Philosophy Ralph Barton Perry 1916

  • From the greatness or rather indispensableness of the good at stake, the opportuneness and even necessity of preventive and strictly binding measures undoubtedly follow.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • The sex which came first and remains first in the immediacy and indispensableness of its relations to the coming life will base its economic claims -- in the vulgar and narrow sense of that term -- upon the worth of those relations.

    Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles 1909

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