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ˈneedfulness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
1. The state or quality of being needful; the fact of something being needful; necessity.
a1425Cursor M. 19553 (Trin.), May no mon..Conferme but bisshopes honde. Þis nedefulnes phelip wist. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 89 The hearers maie bothe knowe the nature of praier, and the nedefulnesse of praier. 1578Banister Hist. Man v. 71 Makyng the stomach to feele the needefulnes of meate and drinke. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 59 Because [it is] needful for God to dwell in, and such needfulness cannot be spoken of nothing. 1748G. White Serm. (MS.), How should we ever be made sensible of the needfulness of the Love..of God? 1856C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain i. xxiii, More fully aware than her father of the needfulness of the lady's-maid. 1885Spectator 30 May 415/1 He..appreciates..the occasional needfulness of war.
†2. A condition of need; a strait. Obs. rare.
a1340Hampole Psalter ix. 22 Þou despisis in nedfulneses, in tribulacyon. a1400Prymer (1891) 80 Of myn needfulnesses delyuere me.
So † ˈneedfulty. Obs. rare—1.
1382Wyclif Ps. ix. 22 [x. 1] Wherto, Lord, wentist thou awei along? Thou despisist in nedfultees, in tribulacioun. |