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 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)

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

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

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