English

Noun

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 ...

     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

     They implanted desires for need-nots and luxuries, and unscrupulously inflamed them.