necessitous

adj

1. (archaic)Needy, indigent, destitute, poor.

   “[W]ith what Face could Wretches who had ravaged and made so many Neceſſitous, look up for Relief; they had to that Moment lived in Defiance of the Power that now alone they muſt truſt for their Preſervation, […]”

   “Thus I have laid before you some arguments, plain indeed, but I hope not nugatory, to enforce a cheerful and generous attention to institutions formed for the instruction and relief of necessitous children”

   “For all our vow of poverty, we can by rule amass to the extent of ’two shillings’; but it is to be given to our necessitous kindred, or in charity.”

2. Lacking; required.

   “Ministers come down I can promise them plenty of entertainment by deputations waiting on them and reminding them of the fact that we are a live people and are anxious to have a portion of the necessitous things conferred on the district.”

   ““Transcriptional regulators of the diphtheria toxin repressor (DtxR) family control the expression of genes involved in the uptake of iron and manganese, which is not only necessitous nutrients but also was suggested to be essential for intracellular redox cycling of microorganisms.”

   “I think that a part of my assignment is to distill out of the raw material of my experience all the necessitous ingredients that I need to make my journey.”

3. Necessary; unavoidable.

   “Those are the necessitous things you must do to make the farm a going concern and make it attractive to the farmer to buy it.”

   “A reason of this kind, a necessitous reason, is not personal.”

   “Former employees are entitled to compensation in this instance if the workplace smoke was a “necessitous and compelling” reason for terminating employment, and that the employer was unable to meet its burden of showing that a reasonable accommodation was offered.”

   “Serrano was unable to demonstrate the third requirement of a necessitous and compelling reason for her voluntary quit, i.e., that she acted with common sense.”