Ne-cĕs'si-tūde, n.

(53), n. [Lat. necessitudo, from necesse. See NECESSARY.]

1. Necessitousness; want. [Obs.] Hale.
2. Necessary connection or relation.

Between kings and their people, parents and their children, there is so great a necessitude, propriety, and intercourse of nature. Bp. Taylor.