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Definition of Necessities
1. necessity [n] - See also: necessity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Necessities
Literary usage of Necessities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Thomas, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"CHAPTER XVI That we ought to lay open our necessities to Christ and to require
His Grace The Voice of the ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"Of these nearly every one has its merits and all have faults, but the variety is
so great that the special necessities of almost every situation can be ..."
3. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell (1826)
"... his benevolent heart was not insensible to the necessities of an humble labourer
in literature, as appears from the very next letter. TO MR. CAVE. ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The conditions of the earlier part of the reign were renewed when the Emperor's
financial necessities once more led him to make serious proposals of ..."
5. Southern History of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1866)
"Startling statistics.—Attempts to get meat from Europe.—General Lee's army without
meat.— His telegram to President Davis.—The necessities of the Commissary ..."
6. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"and "bare-necessities-of-life" sort of exterior gives no other betrayal of. ...
necessities ..."
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