necessitudinousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

necessitudinous

1. (rare) Characterized by or a result of necessity.
   • 1908, The Georgian Period‎:

     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.

   • 1947, Princeton Alumni Weekly‎, volume 48, page 147:

     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.