exigency

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'In the use of the word exigency, the full sense of its effect is perfectly understood.

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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 the use of the word exigency, the full sense of its effect is perfectly understood. —  Canada and the States
  • 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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/ˈɛksɪjənsɪ,jəns/
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