Definition of "necessitude" []

• The state or characteristic of being in need; neediness. (noun)
• A circumstance or event which is necessary or unavoidable, especially because it is a requirement of a social role or natural state of affairs. (noun)
• Necessity. (noun)

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• "It had been of all things the most harassing and wearing -- a life of dreary necessitude -- a perpetual struggle with debt."
• "But I give always my interest, not according to the interestingness, but rather to the necessitude, of each. ""