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exigency [ˈɛksɪdʒənsɪ ɪgˈzɪdʒənsɪ], exigence [ˈɛksɪdʒəns] n pl -gencies, -gences
1. the state of being exigent; urgency 2. (often plural) an urgent demand; pressing requirement 3. an emergency ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
exigency exigence noun 1. need, demand, requirement, necessity, constraint, wont The reduction was caused by the exigencies of a wartime economy. 2. urgency, pressure, difficulty, emergency, crisis, stress, distress, necessity, constraint, hardship, acuteness, demandingness, criticalness, imperativeness, needfulness, pressingness Financial exigency forced him to sell up his business. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I had hired small lodgings, which I contrived to pay for out of a slender fund--the accumulated savings of my Eton pocket-money; for as it had ever been abhorrent to my nature to ask pecuniary assistance, I had early acquired habits of self-denying economy; husbanding my monthly allowance with anxious care, in order to obviate the danger of being forced, in some moment of future exigency, to beg additional aid. At last, in the exigency to which I was reduced, I proposed to Toby that he should endeavour to go round to Nukuheva, and if he could not succeed in returning to the valley by water, in one of the boats of the squadron, and taking me off, he might at least procure me some proper medicines, and effect his return overland. (at least visibly) interfere with the plans of their married children; and the difficulty of adjusting this respect for May's independence with the exigency of Mr. |
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