Definition of Needing

1. Verb. (present participle of need) ¹

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Definition of Needing

1. need [v] - See also: need

Lexicographical Neighbors of Needing

needeth
needfire
needfires
needful
needfull
needfully
needfulness
needfulnesses
needfuls
needier
neediest
needihood
needily
neediness
needinesses
needing (current term)
needle
needle-bush
needle-clawed bushbabies
needle-clawed bushbaby
needle-exchange programs
needle-holder
needle-in-a-haystack
needle-shaped
needle-sharp
needle-wood
needle bath
needle bearing
needle biopsy
needle blight

Literary usage of Needing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Light of Nature Pursued by Abraham Tucker (1768)
"... parts without needing the complicated machinery of firings or engines to propagate it to them : for the minds immediate activity reaches no further than ..."

2. Outlines of Rhetoric: Embodied in Rules, Illustrative Examples, and a by John Franklin Genung (1898)
"These rules comprehend, if not the most interesting, certainly some of the most important processes in composition. I. GRAMMATICAL FORMS needing ..."

3. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"B. Applying to all schools and classes giving industrial education but needing interpretation for each kind, 1. e., all-day, evening, and part-time. 1. ..."

4. Ethic: Demonstrated in Geometrical Order, and Divided Into Five Parts, which by Benedictus de Spinoza, William Hale White, Amelia Hutchison Stirling (1894)
"... fights joyfully and confidently, with equal ease resisting one man or a number of men, and needing scarcely any assistance from fortune. ..."

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