Ne*ces"si*tude (?), n. [L. necessitudo, fr. necesse. See Necessray.]
1.
Necessitousness; want.
Sir M. Hale.
2.
Necessary connection or relation.
Between kings and their people, parents and their children, there is so great a necessitude, propriety, and intercourse of nature.
Jer. Taylor.
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