单词 |
need-be |
释义 |
need-be rare. [f. need v.2 + be v.] An essential or necessary reason; a necessity.
1728P. Walker Life Peden (1827) 118 He afterwards saw a remarkable Providence in it, and a Need-be for it. 1791Mrs. Unwin in Southey Cowper (1836) III. 55 There is no doubt but that there is a need-be for the manifold temptations to which they are exposed. 1838Tupper Proverb. Philos. (1852) 22 Were there not a need-be of wisdom, nothing would be as it is. |

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