Meanings
- rareCharacterized by or a result of necessity.
I believe every Princeton man, on graduation, absconds with something or other as a memento; it may be some extraneous signs, or an eleemosynary book from the Library, or necessitudinous laundry boxes.
1947, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 48, page 1471 more example
Wherever, in this architecture, forms can legitimately break loose from mere construction, wherever composition stands free of mere necessitudinous building, the expression towards which it strains with all the force of well-tutored simplicity is the manifestation of the Classical.
1908, The Georgian Period
Origin
- Latinnecessitūdō
- Latinnecessitūdin-
- Englishnecessitudinous
From Latin necessitūdin- + -ous, from oblique stem of Latin necessitūdō, from necesse + -tūdō, from ne- + cessus, from cēdō. By surface analysis, necessitude + -ous.
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