Needfulness

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Needful \Need"ful\ (n[=e]d"f[.u]l), a.
     1. Full of need; in need or want; needy; distressing.
        [Archaic] --Chaucer.
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              The needful time of trouble.          --Bk. of Com.


                                                    Prayer.
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     2. Necessary for supply or relief; requisite.
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              All things needful for defense abound. --Dryden.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Need"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Need"ful*ness},
        n.
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