Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sacred obligation of family or friendship; a tie or bond of relationship or intimacy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Necessitousness; want.
- noun Necessary connection or relation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rare The state or characteristic of being in
need ;neediness . - noun rare, usually pluralized A
circumstance orevent which isnecessary orunavoidable , especially because it is arequirement of asocial role ornatural state of affairs . - noun rare
Necessity .
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Examples
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It had been of all things the most harassing and wearing -- a life of dreary necessitude -- a perpetual struggle with debt.
Lord Kilgobbin Charles James Lever 1839
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But I give always my interest, not according to the interestingness, but rather to the necessitude, of each. "
Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana George Washington Cable 1884
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