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non-neˈcessity [non- 1.] The condition of being unnecessary; absence of necessity.
1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. Pref. ii. §9 Beza most truly maintaining the necessitie of excommunication, Erastus as truly the non-necessitie of lay elders to be ministers thereof. c1661Papers on Alter. Prayer-Bk. 103 The Common-Prayer-Book plainly speaks of the non-necessity of Unction. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) III. 388 An attempt to prove supposes the necessity of proof, and assumption supposes the non-necessity of proof. 1880Barwell Aneurism 59 note, The non-necessity of tying soluble ligatures tight enough to cut through the outer and middle coat. |