needcessity

For mysel 'I dinna preten' to ony opingon; but sae lang as the needcessity was the same, I wad be laith to think Providence wadna be consistent wi 'itsel'.

Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

And so he became a Tory, as they ca’ it, which we now ca’ Jacobites, just out of a kind of needcessity, that he might belang to some side or other.

Wandering Willie’s Tale 1921

And so he became a Tory, as they ca’ it, which we now ca’ Jacobites, just out of a kind of needcessity, that he might belang to some side or other.

Wandering Willie’s Tale 1907

And so he became a Tory, as they ca 'it, which we now ca' Jacobites, just out of a kind of needcessity, that he might belang to some side or other.

Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801

And so he became a Tory, as they ca’ it, which we now ca’ Jacobites, just out of a kind of needcessity, that he might belang to some side or other.

Redgauntlet 2008

a Tory, as they ca 'it, which we now ca' Jacobites, just out of a kind of needcessity, that he might belang to some side or other.

Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878

“A matter of absolute needcessity,” said Saddletree,

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

I only sleepit ance an 'I cudna help it, for oor Jeanie was born that mornin' -- an 'that was a work o' needcessity.

St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

At this sicht I began to grew a 'ower, and now saw the needcessity of stapping ben, and saving my employer frae farther damage, bodily and itherwise.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827 Various

Lookee, at lock-up hour, I’ll return and bring ye upstairs to him—But ye must stay a’ night in his cell, for I am under needcessity to carry the keys to the captain for the night, and I cannot let you out again until morning—then I’ll visit the wards half an hour earlier than usual, and ye may get out, and be snug in your ain berth when the captain gangs his rounds.

Chapter LVII 1917