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▪ I. ˈneeding, vbl. n.
[f. need v.2 + -ing1.]
†1. An occasion or time of need. Obs. rare.
a1300E.E. Psalter ix. 10 He..made is Laverd..Helper in nedinges. a1340Hampole Psalter xxiv. 18 For þi delyuerd me lord of my nedynges.
†2. A necessary act. Obs. rare—1.
c1475Mankind 776 in Macro Plays 29, I am doynge of my nedynges; be ware how ȝe schott!
3. The fact of being in need; (a) need or want.
1500–20Dunbar Poems ix. 124, I synnit als in reif and in oppressioun,..but rewth of peure folkis neiding. c1600Shakes. Sonn. cxviii, To be diseased ere that there was true needing. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 147 We see then the soul can do after the needings of its own kind. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 117 The daily needings want's worst shifts require.
▪ II. ˈneeding, ppl. a.
[f. need v.2 + -ing2.]
That needs; poor, indigent. Also transf.
1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 7 The Latine Gramer is so poore and needinge and bounde to the Greek literature. 1642Rogers Naaman 133 But a poore needing soule so sees Christ offered. 1898Bp. Moule Colossian Stud. vii. 139 We, in Him, derive that Fulness into our needing Souls. |