necessitousness

Definitions

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

Examples

“[…] give⟳ thou also before asking; that is, where want⟳ is silently clamorous, and men’s necessities not their tongues do loudly call⟳ for thy mercies. For though sometimes necessitousness be dumb, or misery speak⟳ not out, yet true charity is sagacious, and will find⟳ out hints for beneficence.”

“If necessitousness implies a pressing need⟳ for the money and a lack of ability to bargain over rates, then it would seem the modern consumer is not in a very different position from his pre-war cousin.”

“Some of the forces incline the land⟳ toward agricultural use⟳, others incline it toward residential use⟳. . . . There is no economic necessitousness that would dictate one or the other use⟳.”

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