| 释义 |
needfully, adv. Now rare.|ˈniːdfʊlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
Necessarily, upon compulsion or constraint; urgently, pressingly.
a1340Hampole Psalter ix. 22 Nedfully þou suffirs vs to be angird & tribled. c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 976 (1004) For nedfully by-houeth it not to be That þilke þinges fallen in certayn That ben purueyed. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S) 148 [He] hapnyt to be nedefully send for to cum and se his awin place for grete caus. 1541Paynell Catiline xlv. 71 To retourne ageyne, where I lefte, whan I nedefully spake of Cæsar. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 17 To keepe no more but needfullie, and count excesse vnsauerie. 1616B. Jonson Epigr. xciv, [They] must needfully, though few, Be of the best. 1646Crashaw Poems (1858) 162 He [shall] more needfully and nobly prove The nations' terror now. 1861Macm. Mag. IV. 135/1 The presence of one evil action..does not always or needfully make the whole piece of action ugly. |