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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The state of being necessitous; the want of what is necessary for one's station; need.

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  1. n. The state or condition of impoverishment; material need, especially of an urgent nature.
  2. n. rare The state or condition of being necessary or essential; necessity.

Examples

  • “Blessed be the Good One, Who suddenly enriched our necessitousness and supplied our needs!”

    Hymn on the Nativity

  • “His answer to her reproaches pleaded the necessitousness of his purchases and expenditure: a capital plea; and”

    Diana of the Crossways — Volume 3

  • “For though sometimes necessitousness be dumb, or misery speak not out, yet true charity is sagacious, and will find out hints for beneficence.”

    Christian Morals

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