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Shall :: Shall (v. i. & auxiliary.) As an auxiliary, shall indicates a duty or necessity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking; as, you shall go; he shall go; that is, I order or promise your going. It thus ordinarily expresses, in the second and third persons, a command, a threat, or a promise. If the auxillary be emphasized, the command is made more imperative, the promise or that more positive and sure. It is also employed in the language of prophecy; as, the day shall come when . .

Freedom :: Freedom (n.) Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will..

Necessity :: Necessity (n.) The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism..

Exigency :: Exigency (n.) The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as, an unforeseen exigency..

Consent :: Consent (v. i.) To indicate or express a willingness; to yield to guidance, persuasion, or necessity; to give assent or approval; to comply..

Necessity :: Necessity (n.) That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural.

Extremity :: Extremity (n.) The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering; greatest need or peril; extreme need; necessity..

Free Will :: Free will () The power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing without the restraints of physical or absolute necessity.

Mortality :: Mortality (n.) The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying.

Needs :: Needs (adv.) Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must, and equivalent to of need..

Obviate :: Obviate (v. t.) To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary; as, to obviate the necessity of going..

Necessitarianism :: Necessitarianism (n.) The doctrine of philosophical necessity; the doctrine that results follow by invariable sequence from causes, and esp. that the will is not free, but that human actions and choices result inevitably from motives; deteminism..

Distress :: Distress (n.) A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc..

Need :: Need (adv.) Of necessity. See Needs.

Supererogative :: Supererogation (n.) The act of supererogating; performance of more than duty or necessity requires.

Have :: Have (v. t.) To be under necessity or obligation; to be compelled; followed by an infinitive.

Need :: Need (n.) A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

Ask :: Ask (v. t.) To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity; as, what price do you ask?.

Constraint :: Constraint (n.) The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity..

Stern :: Stern (superl.) Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree..

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