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

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

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

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)