Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for NE-CES'SIT-OUS
NE-CES'SIT-IEDNE-CES'SI-TOUS-LY
NE-CES'SIT-OUS, a.
- Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty. There are multitudes of necessitous heirs and penurious parents. Arbuthnot.
- Narrow; destitute; pinching; as, necessitous circumstances.
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