needment

English

Etymology

From need +‎ -ment.

Noun

needment (plural needments)

1. (archaic) Something needed or wanted.

   Synonyms: must, necessity

2. (archaic, in the plural) outfit; necessary luggage
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     His wearie limbes upon: and eke behind,
     His scrip did hang, in which his needments he did bind

   • 1847, William Wordsworth, Autobiographical Memoranda:

     We went staff in hand, without knapsacks, and carrying each his needments tied up in a pocket handkerchief

   • 1895, George Gissing, Nobodies at Home: Humble Felicity:

     Rarely, indeed, did it occur to this man of great resource to enter a shop like anyone else and pay down at the counter what was demanded. His domestic supplies of food and liquor, his clothing, his casual needments, were all procured through irregular channels, by the exercise of wonder-craft, experience, and audacity.

References

• “needment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.