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Exigency :: Exigency (n.) The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as, an unforeseen exigency..

Necessary :: Necessary (a.) Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; -- opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed..

Behoove :: Behoove (v. t.) To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally..

Needs :: Needs (adv.) Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must, and equivalent to of need..

Urge :: Urge (v. t.) To present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention; to insist upon; as, to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case..

Necessarian :: Necessarian (n.) An advocate of the doctrine of philosophical necessity; a nacessitarian.

Needly :: Needly (adv.) Necessarily; of necessity.

Save :: Save (a.) To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare..

Free :: Free (superl.) Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will.

Unnecessity :: Unnecessity (n.) The state of being unnecessary; something unnecessary.

Detention :: Detention (n.) The state of being detained (stopped or hindered); delay from necessity.

Necessity :: Necessity (n.) That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural.

Duress :: Duress (n.) The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense..

Wide :: Wide (superl.) Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the like..

Consent :: Consent (v. i.) To indicate or express a willingness; to yield to guidance, persuasion, or necessity; to give assent or approval; to comply..

Stoic :: Stoic (n.) A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed..

Constraint :: Constraint (n.) The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity..

Necessitarian :: Necessitarian (a.) Of or pertaining to the doctrine of philosophical necessity in regard to the origin and existence of things, especially as applied to the actings or choices of the will; -- opposed to libertarian..

Unessential :: Unessential (n.) Something not constituting essence, or something which is not of absolute necessity; as, forms are among the unessentials of religion..

Distress :: Distress (n.) A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc..

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