Necessity: alternatives and connections

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.

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Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge.

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The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as,…

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To be obliged; to be necessitated; -- expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws.

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A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.

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The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…

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Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.

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Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.

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Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.

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Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.

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To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

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To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

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Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.

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Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.

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Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.

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Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.

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The act of requiring; demand; requisition.

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That which is required, or is necessary; something indispensable.

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Having no essence or being.

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Having no essence or being.

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