exigency
exigent state or character; urgency.
Usually exigencies . the need, demand, or requirement intrinsic to a circumstance, condition, etc.: the exigencies of city life.
a case or situation that demands prompt action or remedy; emergency: He promised help in any exigency.
Origin of exigency
1- Also ex·i·gence .
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How to use exigency in a sentence
My arbitrary job often feels so removed from the exigencies of the physical world that I assume I’d be the first sacrifice in a survivalist reality show.
What Did I Learn from the Swampy Muck of the Florida Trail? That I’m a Kink Hiker. | Patty Hodapp | February 27, 2022 | Outside OnlineThese exigencies seem to have constituted something irrepressible for all the human groups that have trod the Earth for millennia.
Our Most Effective Weapon Is Imagination - Issue 99: Universality | Guido Tonelli | April 29, 2021 | NautilusThe Grammys last night were awkward, strained by the exigencies of the virus.
So Newt & Co. attempt—in ways that mix childhood longings with political exigency—to speak the language of ESPN.
These matters of political exigency were undoubtedly beyond the comprehension of the Ylongos.
The Philippine Islands | John Foreman
She must have been conscious of depths of capacity, to which, whatever the exigency, appeal was never made in vain.
Sir Walter Ralegh | William StebbingThe exigency nerved me for the task, and I found a courage sufficient to carry me through.
My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands | George Francis TrainThe fiction that they do exist disappears at once in the clear atmosphere of "exigency."
My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands | George Francis TrainBut on this day, and in this extreme momentous exigency, no reliance is reposed on our constitutional counsels!
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 | Ministry of Education
British Dictionary definitions for exigency
exigence (ˈɛksɪdʒəns)
/ (ˈɛksɪdʒənsɪ, ɪɡˈzɪdʒənsɪ) /
the state of being exigent; urgency
(often plural) an urgent demand; pressing requirement
an emergency
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