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needment|ˈniːdmənt|
[f. need n. or v.]
1. pl. Things needed, necessaries; esp. personal requisites carried as luggage.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. i. 6 A dwarfe..wearied with bearing of her bag Of needments at his backe. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 426 To provide apparell and other needments for them. 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. ii. vi, There, up to earn the needments of the day, he found dame Poverty. 1847Wordsw. in Chr. Wordsw. Mem. (1851) I. 14 Carrying each his needments tied up in a pocket handkerchief. 1862Sala Ship Chandler i, Longport supplied the colonial isles and the plantations with all their needments.
2. pl. Needs, requirements. Now Sc. rare.
1603H. Crosse Vertues Commw. (1878) 94 A man should..impart the benefite to the needments and necessitie of other. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage vi. x. 515 They haue not left the people sufficient for their needments. 1871Gilmour Pen-Folk (1873) 39 If I am set in judgment on the needments of others. |