needfullyadv.
/ˈniːdfᵿli/, /ˈniːdfl̩i/, U.S. /ˈnidf(ə)li/ Necessarily; upon compulsion or constraint; appropriately, opportunely; urgently, pressingly.
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the mind > will > necessity > [adverb]
needeOE
of (also for, on) needeOE
needseOE
needlingc1225
needs cost?a1300
needlingsc1300
needlya1350
of necessityc1390
needfullya1398
necessarily?a1400
needgatesa1400
needingsa1400
needwaysa1400
needslyc1425
perforcec1425
needilyc1475
needwayc1480
of (or on) force?1507
need-forcea1525
requisitely1565
of very force1587
necessitously1637
necessitively1647
par force1819
imperatively1833
necessitatedly1864
of perforce1897
the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > [adverb] > urgently
fastlyOE
needfullya1398
pressylya1492
pressingly1598
cryingly1832
imperatively1833
urgently1840
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 138 Corrupt eyre corrumpiþ and infectiþ gras..þerof comeþ nudfulliche [L. necessario] corrupcioun in beestis.
?c1400 Erthe upon Erthe (P.R.O.) (1911) 44 Wan eorthe ssal of eorthe netfulliche aryse..þanne eorthe sal on eorthe grimliche agrise.
a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) iv. 1004 Nedfully byhoveth it nat to bee That thilke thynges fallen in certayn That ben purveyed.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 139 [He] hapnyt tobe nedefully send, for to cum, and se his awin place, for grete caus.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) ix. 22 Nedfully thou suffirs vs to be angird and tribled.
1541 T. Paynell tr. Felicius Conspiracie of Catiline xlv. f. 71 To retourne ageyne, where I lefte, whan I nedefully spake of Cæsar.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 6v To kepe no more but nedefully, and coumpt excesse vnsauery.
1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes xciiii, in Wks. I. 796 They..must needfully, though few, Be of the best.
1648 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple (ed. 2) 53 He [shall] more needfully and Nobly prove The Nations terror now.
1697 J. S. Innocent Epicure 14 The Reel, Which freely of its self emits the Line, (Needfully Long and yet securely Fine).
1799 J. G. Holman Red-Cross Knights v. i. 55 Sleeping in the open air may be needfully cooling, and pleasingly refreshing, to the hot-blooded sparks, my master's associates.
1841 J. F. Cooper Deerslayer I. vii. 114 All young men must go on the war-path, when there's occasion, but war isn't needfully massacre.
1861 Macmillan's Mag. 4 135/1 The presence of one evil action..does not always or needfully make the whole piece of action ugly.
1900 H. James in N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 67 With his grasp of his subject, but too needfully sacrificed, it might have appeared, to his clutch of seat and inkstand.
1985 D. Lessing Good Terrorist 12 She offered Alice a cigarette, which was refused, and smoked hers needfully, greedily.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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