Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a necessitous manner: as, to be necessitously circumstanced.
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- adverb In a
necessitous way.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Never overstepping the strict boundaries of legal righteousness, he was neither warm-hearted nor generous — in fact, he would turn any trick which could be speciously, or at best necessitously, recommended to his conscience.
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Oppression is often the CONSEQUENCE, but seldom or never the MEANS of riches; and tho 'avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.
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~ -- Though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.
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Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.
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Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.
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Oppression is often the CONSEQUENCE, but seldom or never the MEANS of riches; and though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.
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