needfulness

Example Sentences

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No Oxbridge irony here: this is a direct expression of needfulness and vulnerability, deeply embarrassing and pretty wonderful because of it.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2013

And Ichi, leering up at him, said, "And now—we have no needfulness of Mr. Blake——" So far he got.

From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Springer, Norman

O Will, thou change of every need, MY needfulness!

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

And without they have wrinkles and folding in length: of whom the substance is hard for needfulness of moving, opening, and closing.

From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Steele, Robert

I know all the arguments for the needfulness of war, and there is not one of them that will hold water.

From The Audacious War by Barron, Clarence W. (Clarence Walker)