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Necessitous   Listen
adjective
Necessitous  adj.  
1.
Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty. "Necessitous heirs and penurious parents."
2.
Narrow; destitute; pinching; pinched; as, necessitous circumstances.





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"Necessitous" Quotes from Famous Books



... might never see a necessitous person go unrelieved! O! that we might see none suffer for want of clothing! O! that we might be eyes to the blind and feet to the lame! O! that we could refresh the heart of the Fatherless! O! that we could mitigate the burden of the labouring ...
— History of the Moravian Church • J. E. Hutton
... vividness of finite experience, so Mr. Galsworthy pleads for a justice which shall be applicable, not to an infinite number of imaginary cases, but to the individual, to the person whom we might chance to know, and meet, and work with—to the necessitous human being. He pleads for a law which shall be elastic, not rigid; dealing with men, not cases; for which mercy shall come to be a part of the idea of justice. That which is good enough for human beings in their dealings one ...
— Personality in Literature • Rolfe Arnold Scott-James
... the most inveterate hatred by Lady Bellingham's party, and as his revenue was sequestered, no remittances could come from that quarter. At the death of Farmer Humphreys, the church-land he had occupied was taken from his widow, who was now fallen into decay, and unable to assist the necessitous pastor she so truly revered. The provision which the revolutionary government pretended to make to the ejected ministers, was at best irregularly supplied, and often totally withheld. The infirmities of Colonel Evellin engrossing the whole time of Isabel, no fund could be ...
— The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 - An Historical Novel • Jane West
... daily for the arrival of Boats from below with corn, tis the wish of the Gen'l that the necessitous Indians sh'd be supplied from this place. Boats w'd be sent farther up the river, were we otherwise circumstanced. As it is the Boats have necessarily to run the gauntlet of the enemy—The Gen'l ...
— The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War • Annie Heloise Abel
... poach that I may live to—poach again, sir. I am, at once, a necessitous poacher, ...
— The Amateur Gentleman • Jeffery Farnol et al


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