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Grammar : Adj
Spell : nes-uh-ser-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈnɛs əˌsɛr i

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Définition of more necessary

Origin :
  • late 14c. "needed, required, essential, indispensable," from Old French necessaire "necessary, urgent, compelling" (13c.), and directly from Latin necessarius "unavoidable, indispensable, necessary," from necesse "unavoidable, indispensable," originally "no backing away," from ne- "not" + cedere "to withdraw, go away, yield" (see cede). The root sense is of that from which there is no evasion, that which is inevitable. Necessary house "privy" is from c.1600. Necessary evil is from 1540s (the original reference was to "woman").
  • adj essential
  • adj inevitable
Example sentences :
  • Sez I, "One hain't no more necessary than the other in my opinion."
  • Extract from : « Samantha Among the Brethren, Part 6. » by Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)
  • I honestly believe it is more necessary now than it ever was.
  • Extract from : « Fair Harbor » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • He felt it all the more necessary that they should sketch it for him.
  • Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 » by Various
  • This was the more necessary because the Boers were known to be intensely suspicious.
  • Extract from : « Impressions of South Africa » by James Bryce
  • If certain things are more necessary to you than me,—search for them.
  • Extract from : « Mary Wollstonecraft » by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
  • You are my world, dearer than life, more necessary than the air we breathe.
  • Extract from : « The Master-Knot of Human Fate » by Ellis Meredith
  • But the other half is harder and more necessary,—to get a thing well ended.
  • Extract from : « Days Off » by Henry Van Dyke
  • Prompt and energetic measures were more necessary than ever.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte » by William Milligan Sloane
  • This precaution was more necessary while they were in motion than at rest.
  • Extract from : « The Plant Hunters » by Mayne Reid
  • Now, nothing can be more necessary than that this notion should be done away with.
  • Extract from : « Chapters in Rural Progress » by Kenyon L. Butterfield

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