needfulness
Example Sentences
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No Oxbridge irony here: this is a direct expression of needfulness and vulnerability, deeply embarrassing and pretty wonderful because of it.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2013
But the señor, who already has studied through ten years, will understand the needfulness of this short discipline.
From The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier
And Ichi, leering up at him, said, "And now—we have no needfulness of Mr. Blake——" So far he got.
From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Norman Springer
But his career had established both the needfulness and the position of a Bishop, and his successor was appointed without the same opposition, still to a path perhaps only less thorny because briefer.
From Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Still, however, such an analogy conveys the best general conception of what he has done; and serves most clearly to indicate its needfulness.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer