needfulness

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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 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 Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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 Spencer, Herbert

And without they have wrinkles and folding in length: of whom the substance is hard for needfulness of moving, opening, and closing.

From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Steele, Robert

O Will, thou change of every need, MY needfulness!

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm