The Collaborative International Dictionary
Necessitude \Ne*ces"si*tude\, n. [L. necessitudo, fr. necesse. See Necessray.]
Necessitousness; want.
--Sir M. Hale.-
Necessary connection or relation.
Between kings and their people, parents and their children, there is so great a necessitude, propriety, and intercourse of nature.
--Jer. Taylor.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context rare English) The state or characteristic of being in need; neediness. 2 (context rare usually pluralized English) A circumstance or event which is necessary or unavoidable, especially because it is a requirement of a social role or natural state of affairs. 3 (context rare chiefly philosophy English) necessity. 4 (context archaic English) A relation or connection between people or things.''Oxford English Dictionary'', 2nd ed., 1989.
Usage examples of "necessitude".
I am not a little proud of being the grateful and happy instrument of the necessitude and familiar communication which is like to intervene between you.
Their assets and their needs would be taken care of through Covenant, which would monitor wants, whims, and necessitudes, blending desires and providing what people wanted primarily by knowing them as well or better than they knew themselves.