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necessitates

necessitates is a Latin form of necessitas, meaning “necessity, need; compulsion; distress; close tie, obligation”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 42 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 8.53.2: Quibus non frangebantur animi inimicorum Caesaris, sed admonebantur quo maiores pararent necessitates, quibus cogi posset senatus id probare, quod ipsi constituissent.

Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis 7.23.3: saepe enim opus est malis exactore, etiam bonis admonitione. Quid ergo ? Occasionem ignoranti non ostendam ? Necessitates illi meas non detegam ? Quare nescisse se aut mentiatur aut doleat ? Interveniat aliquando admonitio, sed verecunda, quae non poscat nec in ius vocet.

All forms of necessitas (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.