Definition of "necessitousness" []

• The state or condition of impoverishment; material need, especially of an urgent nature. (noun)
• The state or condition of being necessary or essential; necessity. (noun)

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• "Blessed be the Good One, Who suddenly enriched our necessitousness and supplied our needs!"
• "His answer to her reproaches pleaded the necessitousness of his purchases and expenditure: a capital plea; and"
• "For though sometimes necessitousness be dumb, or misery speak not out, yet true charity is sagacious, and will find out hints for beneficence."