indispensable

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INDISPENS'ABLE, adjective Not to be dispensed with; that cannot be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely necessary or requisite. Air and water are indispensable to the life of man. Our duties to God and to our fellow men are of indispensable obligation.
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