\Ne*ces"si*tude\, n. [L. necessitudo, fr. necesse.
See {Necessray}.]
1. Necessitousness; want. --Sir M. 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. --Jer. Taylor.