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Definition of Necessitous
1. Adjective. Poor enough to need help from others.
Similar to: Poor
Derivative terms: Indigence, Necessity, Need, Neediness
Definition of Necessitous
1. a. Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty.
Definition of Necessitous
1. Adjective. (archaic) Needy, indigent, destitute, poor. ¹
2. Adjective. (archaic) In need, lacking. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Necessitous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Necessitous
Literary usage of Necessitous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Immigration Problem: A Study of American Immigration Conditions and Needs by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, William Jett Lauck, Rufus Daniel Smith (1922)
"THEIR Necessitous CONDITION Another salient fact in connection with the recent
immigrant labor supply has been the necessitous condition of the newcomers ..."
2. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, George Smith, Harold F. Oxbury (1885)
"... whom God hath honoured for His almoners, and sanctified to- be His dispensers
of the fruits of charity and mercy, in this my •necessitous and ..."
3. Life of George Washington by Washington Irving (1884)
"Necessitous State of the Country. — Washington urge* a Foreign Loan.—Mission of
Colonel I/aurens to France to geek Aid in Men and Money. ..."
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