necessitudinous
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From necessitude + -in- + -ous.
Adjective
[edit]necessitudinous
- (rare) Characterized by or a result of necessity.
- 1908, The Georgian Period[1]:
- Wherever, in this architecture, forms can legitimately break loose from mere construction, wherever composition stands free of mere necessitudinous building, the expression towards which it strains with all the force of well-tutored simplicity is the manifestation of the Classical.
- 1947, Princeton Alumni Weekly[2], volume 48, page 147:
- I believe every Princeton man, on graduation, absconds with something or other as a memento; it may be some extraneous signs, or an eleemosynary book from the Library, or necessitudinous laundry boxes.