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need-not en · NOUN
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(obsolete) Something that is not needed or is excessive.
They implanted desires for need-nots and luxuries, and unscrupulously inflamed them.
2013, Alvin Jackson, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History:Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]
1673, Baxter's Practical Works, Vol. I:
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