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
Still, however, such an analogy conveys the best general conception of what he has done; and serves most clearly to indicate its needfulness.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
But the señor, who already has studied through ten years, will understand the needfulness of this short discipline.
From The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier
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 Clarence W. (Clarence Walker) Barron
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 Robert Steele
