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need not

vb. (context chiefly UK English) Don't have to.

Usage examples of "need not".

A man with nineteen neighbors need not consider any of them too much.

Therefore, perhaps, I need not waste any more time upon the argument about the First Cause.

But, on the other hand, it is sure, and we need not bow to any one.

They were more than that, as secretly I had known all along, down inside myself where I need not face the knowledge.

You can no longer pretend passivity- and you need not pretend ignorance.

Or, even more likely, it could be run completely by slaves, and the woman who owned them and the property need not set foot there except to collect the profits.

The Londinium Club was and is extremely exclusive, and the merely heroic or significant need not apply.