Needment
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Needment is a noun meaning (archaic) Something needed or wanted.
Meaning
(archaic) Something needed or wanted.
More Meanings
- (archaic, in the plural) outfit; necessary luggage
Example Sentences
His wearie limbes upon: and eke behind, His scrip did hang, in which his needments he did bind
We went staff in hand, without knapsacks, and carrying each his needments tied up in a pocket handkerchief
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.
Word Forms
- needments
Synonyms for needment
Depending on context, synonyms include must, necessity.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include neede, needful, necessary, mister, wantage, neeld.
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