need-not

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need-not (plural need-nots)

  1. (rare) Something that is not needed or is excessive.
    • 2007, Baxter's Practical Works, Volume 1: A Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases ...‎[1]:
      Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]
    • 2014, Alvin Jackson, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History‎[2]:
      They implanted desires for need-nots and luxuries, and unscrupulously inflamed them.

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