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

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

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

But the señor, who already has studied through ten years, will understand the needfulness of this short discipline.

From The Aztec Treasure-House by Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone)

With the Reformation a large section of the Church ceased to admit its needfulness, and the field of its enforcement was very much curtailed.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various

I know all the arguments for the needfulness of war, and there is not one of them that will hold water.

From The Audacious War by Barron, Clarence W. (Clarence Walker)