necessitude
[nuh-ses-i-tood, -tyood]
/ nəˈsɛs ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud /
NOUN
matter of life and death
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Example Sentences
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But I give always my interest, not according to the interestingness, but rather to the necessitude, of each.”
From Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana by Cable, George Washington