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No Oxbridge irony here: this is a direct expression of needfulness and vulnerability, deeply embarrassing and pretty wonderful because of it.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2013

Still, however, such an analogy conveys the best general conception of what he has done; and serves most clearly to indicate its needfulness.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

With the Reformation a large section of the Church ceased to admit its needfulness, and the field of its enforcement was very much curtailed.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various

O Will, thou change of every need, MY needfulness!

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

And Ichi, leering up at him, said, "And now—we have no needfulness of Mr. Blake——" So far he got.

From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Springer, Norman