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单词 needcessity
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needcessityn.

Brit. /niːdˈsɛsᵻti/, U.S. /ˌnidˈsɛsədi/, Scottish English /nidˈsɛsᵻti/, Irish English /niːdˈsɛsəti/
Forms: Scottish pre-1700 neidcessitie, 1700s needsecity, 1700s needsesaty, 1700s needsesity, 1700s– needcessity; English regional (Yorkshire and Somerset) 1800s needcessity; U.S. regional (chiefly south Midland) 1700s– needcessity, 1800s needsesity, 1900s– nedcessity; Irish English (chiefly northern) 1800s– needcessity.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: necessity n.
Etymology: Alteration of necessity n. after need n.1
regional (originally Scottish, now chiefly Irish English (northern)).
1. Necessity, need; an instance of this.
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1562 in A. O. Ewing View Merchants House Glasgow (1866) 42 In our urgent neidcessitie to our support in this trubblus tyme.
1671 Misc. Papers Ld. Haddo (Edinb. Reg. House) in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Neidcessitie I think thair will be no neidcessitie for this.
1706 W. Hector Judicial Rec. (1876) 193 When neither the circumstances of poverty nor needcessity can tempt to sick heinous cryme.
1740 Trans. Stirlingshire Arch. Soc. (1926) 48 Considering the needsecity of the poor of the trade.
1795 in N. Carolina Hist. Rev. (1934) 2 307 He was then Riduced to the needcessity of take his shelter on a high Stump where he stood and wated his fate.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ix, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 227 ‘Is this necessary?’ said Jeanie... ‘A matter of absolute needcessity,’ said Saddletree.
1867 G. W. Harris Sut Lovingood 80 I'd a-cut ole Soul's fraot wif a hansaw, an' never batted my eye, ef she'd a-hinted the needsesity.
1897 C. M. Stuart Sandy Scott's Bible Class 81 Ye maun just be like the apostle Paul, and glory in your needcessities.
1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood xii Bleeze awa' about the needcessity o' speed in the guid cause.
1941 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 10 May 36 No needcessity o'lock or key on Shoal Creek.
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. at Need Work of needcessity, an essential task, e.g. in farming, that cannot be put off until another day and is therefore exempt from the rules of Sabbatarian observance.
2. In plural. Needs; necessities; indispensable things. Now Irish English (northern).
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the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > [noun] > that which is necessary > necessaries
necessarya1382
necessars1386
necessity?1406
mister1477
needment1590
implements1612
needfuls1614
vitals1657
essentiality1710
fundamentals1864
needcessities1874
the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > need or want > [noun] > needs
needments1601
needcessities1874
1874 Harper's Mag. July 163/2 Savin' a very moderate supply for my own needcessities, I pours the liquor into my trough.
1881 G. MacDonald Warlock o' Glenwarlock xx. 284 It wad be but fair the auld captain sud contreebit something to the needcessities o' the hoose.
1900 Pearson's Mag. July 52 They'd deny themselves the very needcessities..to put enough in young Neil's pocket.
1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 195 Needcessities.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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