"need-not" meaning in English

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      "form": "need-nots",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "2007, Baxter's Practical Works, Volume 1: A Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases ...:",
          "text": "Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Alvin Jackson, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History:",
          "text": "They implanted desires for need-nots and luxuries, and unscrupulously inflamed them.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Something that is not needed or is excessive."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) Something that is not needed or is excessive."
      ],
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  "word": "need-not"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2007, Baxter's Practical Works, Volume 1: A Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases ...:",
          "text": "Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]",
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        },
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          "ref": "2014, Alvin Jackson, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History:",
          "text": "They implanted desires for need-nots and luxuries, and unscrupulously inflamed them.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that is not needed or is excessive."
      ],
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        "(rare) Something that is not needed or is excessive."
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  "word": "need-not"
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