exigency

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you're prob'bly dyin' this very minit Belle O'Neill began to howl, Wesley to weep dismally with low moans, his fists in his eyes I had a medicine which I administered to the two, in case the exigency were as fearful as Miss Pray predicted, which I strongly doubted.

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  1. noun The state or quality of requiring much effort or immediate action.
  2. noun A pressing or urgent situation. See Synonyms at crisis.
  3. noun Urgent requirements; pressing needs. Often used in the plural.

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  • The desire of the executive for a military establishment equal to the exigency was not regarded and the distresses of the frontier inhabitants therefore still continued. —  Life and Times of Washington
  • He coined the brains of his authors in the times of their exigency, and made them pay dear for the plank put out to keep them from drowning. —  Oliver Goldsmith
  • In this exigency, the old French and English authors appear to have been drawn upon; and probably their works contributed by far the larger part of the volume after the 114th page (Philadelphia ed. 1796), which concludes the "Journal." —  Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
  • you're prob'bly dyin' this very minit Belle O'Neill began to howl, Wesley to weep dismally with low moans, his fists in his eyes I had a medicine which I administered to the two, in case the exigency were as fearful as Miss Pray predicted, which I strongly doubted. —  Vesty of the Basins
  • I had a medicine which I administered to the two, in case the exigency were as fearful as Miss Pray predicted, which I strongly doubted. —  Vesty of the Basins
 

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  1. [LL. exigentia: cf. F. exigence.]

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/ (ĕkˈsə-jən-sē, ĭg-zĭjˈən-)/
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