necessariness
Noun
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Noun
necessariness (uncountable)
- The state or characteristic of being necessary.
- 1898, S. S. Laurie, "The Growth of Mind as a Real and the Influence of the Formal on the Real", The School Revew, vol. 6, no. 4, p. 255:
- Time and space are themselves part of the phenomena or object. . . . It is the necessariness of these perceptions which has led to their being elevated to the position of abstract wholes in which all things exist.
- 1981, Jerald P. Keene, "The Ill-Advised State Court Revival of the 'McNabb-Mallory' Rule," The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, vol. 72, no. 1, p. 222:
- The test was so general that defendant flooded the court's docket with appeals seeking judicial examination of the necessariness of prearraignment detentions.
- 2001 Nov. 19, Jason Cowley, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20100915221942/http://www.newstatesman.com/200111190044 Books: Still life in mobile homes]," New Statesman (UK) (retrieved 30 Sep. 2008):
- A journey, one would think, ought to have a certain necessariness; there must be a reason for going.
- 1898, S. S. Laurie, "The Growth of Mind as a Real and the Influence of the Formal on the Real", The School Revew, vol. 6, no. 4, p. 255:
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