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N__________
Definitions
poor enough to need help from others
Word origin
From necessity + -ous, after Middle French nécessiteux.
Used in a sentence
“[W]ith what Face could Wretches who had ravaged and made so many Neceſſitous, look up for Relief; they had to that Moment lived in Defiance of the Power that now alone they muſt truſt for their Preſervation, […]”
“Thus I have laid before you some arguments, plain indeed, but I hope not nugatory, to enforce a cheerful and generous attention to institutions formed for the instruction and relief of necessitous children”
“For all our vow of poverty, we can by rule amass to the extent of ’two shillings’; but it is to be given to our necessitous kindred, or in charity.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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