indispensaˈbility
[f. next + -ity.]
The quality or fact of being indispensable.
1. Incapability of dispensation. (See indispensable, 1, 2.)
| a 1648 Ld. Herbert Henry VIII (1683) 401 The indispensability of the first Marriage. 1660 Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. ii. iii. rule 11 §1 The indispensability of the natural laws, which are the main constituent parts of the evangelical. |
2. Incapability of being dispensed with or done without. (See indispensable 3.)
| 1793 Holcroft Lavater's Physiog. vi. 41 Of all earth's creatures, man alone rejoices in his indispensability. 1827 Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) I. vii. 395 Preaching the divine right, as it is called, or absolute indispensability, of episcopacy. 1861 Mill Utilit. v. 81 Recognised indispensability becomes a moral necessity, analogous to physical. |