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1628. Bp. Hall, Old Relig., 117. An opinion of the vnnecessarinesse of deuotion in these holy businesses.
1685. Boyle, Enq. Notion Nat., v. 124. The unnecessariness of such a nature as is pretended.
1720. Sir J. Stewart, in Wodrow Corr. (1843), II. 489, note. The unnecessariness of oaths, as being no security to a government.
1810. Coleridge, Lit. Rem. (1838), III. 337. I should confine my grounds of opposition to the article thus stated to its unnecessariness.
1845. R. Balmer, Lect. & Disc., II. 307. To demonstrate the unnecessariness of the miraculous gifts of the Spirit.