needment

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noun

Something needed or wanted.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

nounneedment (plural needments)

plural needments

  1. archaicSomething needed or wanted.

    Synonyms: must, necessity

  2. archaicin pluraloutfit; necessary luggage

    His wearie limbes upon: and eke behind, His scrip did hang, in which his needments he did bind

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    2 more examples

    We went staff in hand, without knapsacks, and carrying each his needments tied up in a pocket handkerchief

    1847, William Wordsworth, Autobiographical Memoranda

    Rarely, indeed, did it occur to this man of great resource to enter a shop like anyone else and pay down at the counter what was demanded. His domestic supplies of food and liquor, his clothing, his casual needments, were all procured through irregular channels, by the exercise of wonder-craft, experience, and audacity.

    1895, George Gissing, Nobodies at Home: Humble Felicity

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSomething needed or wanted.

Origin

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