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
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)
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
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
With the Reformation a large section of the Church ceased to admit its needfulness, and the field of its enforcement was very much curtailed.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various
