Word Finder - necessity

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The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.

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I bought a new table out of necessity. My old one was ruined.

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The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack

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Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.

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A tent is a necessity if you plan on camping.

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Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power

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The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.

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Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.

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doctrine of necessity

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(in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).

Now, I'm sure you see the necessity of doing exactly what I say.

To her, a telephone was a necessity, not a convenience.

The necessity of laws and penalties had to be explained to her.

She seemed to promise to explain that necessity to him when he came on Tuesday.

He must not sit in a mosque, except under necessity, but in some open, accessible place.

The grand necessity, then, for our bodies, is to keep warm, to keep the vital heat in us.

No wonder chaperones were considered a necessity in the old days.

Every new word Helen learns seems to carry with it necessity for many more.

I have actually fished from the same kind of necessity that the first fishers did.

It was felt to be a political necessity that he should return, and in 1541, somewhat reluctantly, he returned on his own terms. These were the recognition of the Church's spiritual independence, the division of the town into parishes, and the appointment (by the municipal authority) of a consistory or council of elders in each parish for the exercise of discipline.

This was the first indication of the necessity of deviating from what had previously seemed the most natural course--a direct retreat on Nizhni-Novgorod.

A short, balding man, who looked as if a haircut was more a social event than a necessity, rose to leave, and with a glance at the back room said, "Ol' Ralph always was a bit weird."

On the 2nd of November he opened the great attack by proposing an address declaring the necessity for the king's dismissing James from his council.

We may call it mechanical necessity.

You know a student's life is of necessity somewhat circumscribed and narrow and crowds out almost everything that is not in books....

Prince Andrew was in command of a regiment, and the management of that regiment, the welfare of the men and the necessity of receiving and giving orders, engrossed him.

Is there no higher or broader necessity?

He loosened his collar and tie out of absolute necessity.

Prince Andrew listened attentively to Bagration's colloquies with the commanding officers and the orders he gave them and, to his surprise, found that no orders were really given, but that Prince Bagration tried to make it appear that everything done by necessity, by accident, or by the will of subordinate commanders was done, if not by his direct command, at least in accord with his intentions.

It was a feeling akin to what he had felt at the Sloboda Palace during the Emperor's visit--a sense of the necessity of undertaking something and sacrificing something.

We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously.

He hated the idea but understood the necessity, especially after finding the second compass in the hands of demons within a week.

It gave him some level of confidence that her warning was one born of necessity, not idle speculation.

But these reforms were of necessity slow in their beneficial operation.

Having come to an understanding with his father-in-law Podébrad, he was able to turn his arms against the emperor Frederick, and in April 1462 Frederick restored the holy crown for 60,000 ducats and was allowed to retain certain Hungarian counties with the title of king; in return for which concessions, extorted from Matthias by the necessity of coping with a simultaneous rebellion of the Magyar noble in league with Podebrad's son Victorinus, the emperor recognized Matthias as the actual sovereign of Hungary.

It was merged in the German kingdom; and, since for the German princes Germany was of necessity their first care, Italy from this time forward began to be left more and more to herself.

At this crisis she was ruled by the monk Girolamo Savonarola, who inspired the people with a thirst for freedom, preached the necessity of reformation, and placed himself in direct antagonism to Rome.

Urged by a peremptory message from Napoleon, Cavour saw the necessity of bowing to the will of Europe, of disbanding the volunteers and reducing the army to a peace footing.

It laid down the lawfulness and necessity of persecution to the death for heresy in the most absolute terms; and Cranmer himself condemned Joan Bocher to the flames.

Here then characteristically intuitionalism occupies a half-way house between empiricism, with its appeal to real given fact, and idealism, with its appeal to necessity.

Every time we survey a field, we go upon the principles, not of special experience, but of a priori necessity.

If we answer " Yes " to that question, we pass on from intuitionalism to idealism - an idealism not on the lines of Berkeley (matter does not exist) but of Plato (things A obey an ascertainable rational necessity).

Kant then has broken away from intuitionalism by substituting one system of necessity for the many necessary truths or given experiences from which intuitionalism takes its start.

Kant had substituted one great necessity, sprung from an ideal source.

The necessity of moral rectitude was itself an incentive.

Long before the political revolution of 1918 the Czechoslovaks had been convinced of the necessity for a far-reaching measure of land reform, both from a social and economic point of view as well as from national considerations.

In 1778 appeared a published correspondence between these two liberal theologians on the subjects of materialism and necessity, wherein Price maintains, in opposition to Priestley, the free agency of man and the unity and immateriality of the human soul.

Urban was the first to proclaim with emphasis the necessity of a close association of the Curia with the religious orders, and this he made the essential basis of the theocratic government.

He also had to submit to the consequences of his origin on the occasion of a double election not foreseen by the Concordat of Worms, when he was forced to admit the necessity of appeal to Rome and to acknowledge the supremacy of the papal decision.

It was because they did not succeed that necessity and the violence of human passions subsequently forced him into a course of action which he had not chosen and which led him further than he wished to go.

This necessity grew more urgent every year as Methodism extended.

At its very commencement, the pope in his first encyclical (Easter 1878) proclaimed the necessity of a temporal hierarchy.

In the autumn of 1911 the crisis with Turkey broke out, and it is believed that it was he who convinced the premier of the national necessity for the Italian occupation of Libya.

All the Masons sat down in their places, and one of them read an exhortation on the necessity of humility.

He was worried by the impending necessity of interfering in the stupid business matters for which his mother had called him home.

But as soon as the necessity for a general European war presented itself he appeared in his place at the given moment and, uniting the nations of Europe, led them to the goal.

Portocarrero could not see, and indeed had not either the intelligence or the honesty to see, the necessity.

As regards the last mentioned it may be said that it was accomplished from within, there being no real external necessity for the union of the states.

It was hard indeed for a carter drawing coal to a gasworks to recognize the necessity which compelled a reduction in his wages because wool had fallen 20 7 0.

This system of telegraphic printing has a great advantage over the step-by-step system in avoiding the necessity for the rapidly acting electric escapement, which, however skilfully planned and executed, is always liable to failure when worked too rapidly.