necessitude

[ nuh-ses-i-tood, -tyood ]

noun

, Archaic.

1. necessity.

Word History and Origins

Origin of necessitude¹

1605–15; < Latin necessitūdō, equivalent to necessi-, combining form of necesse necessary + -tūdō -tude

Example Sentences

It had been of all things the most harassing and wearing—a life of dreary necessitude—a perpetual struggle with debt.

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