Adjective : to aid a necessitous young mother. ,a necessitous discharge of responsibilities. ,the necessitous demands of the oil shortage. From Dictionary.com.
Training Colleges, grants to necessitous schools, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain and Her Queen] Reference
He said that necessitous men and women cannot be free. From Wordnik.com. [Shulamith Koenig: Everyone Should Be Aware Of Their Inalienable Human Rights] Reference
He gave his clothes to him who appeared to be the most necessitous. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi] Reference
So did I know, saith Master Mouth, two necessitous Students, who at a. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple] Reference
Such necessitous acts are dangerous to the ego and its will to control. From Wordnik.com. [A Matter of Urgency] Reference
Have you anything? do not borrow, for you are not in a necessitous condition. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Baptist; and for the relief of the necessitous he gave away immense occult alms. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
His tenants now felt the iron rule of a merciless and necessitous master; for Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
Does not such a regulation tend to involve necessitous men in the commission of crimes?. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference
The Lord Chancellor of England pointed out in 1762, "necessitous men are not free men.". From Wordnik.com. [Morality, Rights and Health Care] Reference
It is better to give sometimes to an undeserving person, than to turn away one really necessitous. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
It can now meet a few more of the immediate demands urged upon it from its vast and necessitous field. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 05, May, 1890] Reference
Northumbrian, then resident in the house -- a man in necessitous circumstances, and wanting employment. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
He was the idol of a necessitous mother, who had brought him up at the cost of the severest privations. From Wordnik.com. [The Purse] Reference
The friend whom he had known under a shabby and necessitous guise had become a brilliant figure on the London Press. From Wordnik.com. [Dubliners] Reference
His patrimony he employed in relieving the necessitous, and in building or endowing monasteries, churches, and hospitals. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
It will require repeal of universality and retrenchment of social programmes other than to the deserving and necessitous. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Election Prospects in Canada] Reference
Here is expressed the extremity of necessitous extortions, figured in the ancient fable of the full and the hungry horseleech. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
The Arabs could not see it, since their minds did not hold a picture of the long, linked Turkish front with its necessitous demands. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
And sometimes it represents the ability of the trader to force necessitous men to cooperate in return for no more than subsistence pay. From Wordnik.com. [Energy and Society~ Chapter 5~ Steam~ Key to the Industrial Revolution] Reference
Others again are out of Humour, because I do not comply with all their unreasonable Demands, their Luxury always keeping them necessitous. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country] Reference
She was careful in inquiring after the necessitous, and deemed it a loss on her side if any other hands than her own administered relief to them. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
If the community could pay for it, it was bound to do so; but if the necessitous person could not pay for it, he was none the less entitled to take it. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching] Reference
Dr. Price and adds, these vices sap the foundation of virtue, they render Men necessitous and Supple, ready at any time to sacrifice their consciences. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 19 October 1783] Reference
Whose expenses and ambition are moderate; and who, if she had superfluities, would rather dispense them to the necessitous, than lay them by her useless?. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Only the uniforms of the English and American women who are attached to each of these many cantonments suggested any necessitous combating of the grim reaper. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
And it is for this reason that wage-earners, who are, undoubtedly, among the weak and necessitous should be specially cared for and protected by the commonwealth.no. From Wordnik.com. [Is the Acton Institute a Genuine Expression of Catholic Social Thought?] Reference
As Roosevelt saw it, “necessitous men are not free men,” not least because those who are hungry and jobless “are the stuff out of which dictatorships are made.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Greatest Generation] Reference
World furnishes us with real objects of Charity where ever we are placed, but the circle around me have been particularly necessitous through this long and severe winter. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 12 April 1784] Reference
In these long years of struggle for our organisation, the Service for Peace and Justice in Latin America, we have shared the path together with the poorest and most necessitous. From Wordnik.com. [Adolfo Pérez Esquivel - Acceptance Speech] Reference
Or shall the phrase now beginning to be used in laws passed against family desertion apply to the wife only when it is proved she is "in necessitous circumstances" without her husband's provision?. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
Leaving out of consideration the necessitous poor and those who for their living engage themselves in hard physical toil, it is safe to say that hardly one person in a thousand has ever felt real hunger. From Wordnik.com. [No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes] Reference
The reception he met with was cool and mortifying; the nobleman turned his back upon the necessitous veteran, and left him to find his way to the street through a suite of apartments magnificently furnished. From Wordnik.com. [A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals] Reference
No number of necessitous objects, no losses, no straits to which he saw himself often reduced, discouraged him, or made him lose his confidence in divine providence, and resources never failed him in the end. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
He had received twenty pounds, and yet was so necessitous, that on our hesitating, he wrote me a most impertinent letter for his money. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference
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