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Meanings of needfully in English

In an essential manner.

Usage of needfully in English
1
All young men must go on the war-path, when there's occasion, but war isn't needfully massacre.
The Deerslayer
2
You are mair than needfully anxious, sir.
A Daughter of Fife
3
How wholly we all lie at the mercy of a single prater, not needfully with any malign purpose!
The Pocket R.L.S.: Being Favourite Passages from the Works of St...
4
She wished to hear no allusions to her trouble, except such as were needfully made in the arranging of practical points.
Hetty's Strange History
5
Never before had we made haste more gladly or less needfully, but never before had there been such an incentive to haste.
Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
6
George, being Occidental to his heart's core, felt an exasperation the worse because it was needfully dumb, on account of this adoration.
By the Light of the Soul: A Novel
7
The captain who was charged with the safety of the ship set his course carefully, whilst pilot and steersman needfully observed his word.
Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut
8
Which brings us by needfully prosy degrees to a morning, when two marauders came to the Place at the same time, if by different routes.
Further Adventures of Lad
Needfully through the time