Crossword clues for expedience
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expedience \Ex*pe"di*ence\, Expediency \Ex*pe"di*en*cy\,, n.
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The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude or principle.
Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice.
--Cogan.To determine concerning the expedience of action.
--Sharp.Much declamation may be heard in the present day against expediency, as if it were not the proper object of a deliberative assembly, and as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled.
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Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Obs.]
Making hither with all due expedience.
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An expedition; enterprise; adventure. [Obs.]
Forwarding this dear expedience.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "advantage, benefit," from Old French expedience, from Late Latin expedientia, from expedientem (see expedient). From "that which is expedient," the sense tends toward "utilitarian wisdom." Meaning "quality of being expedient" is from 1610s. Related: Expediency (1610s).\n
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; propriety or advisability under the particular circumstances of a case. 2 Speed, haste or urgency. 3 Something that is expedient. 4 (context obsolete English) An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
WordNet
n. the quality of being suited to the end in view [syn: expediency] [ant: inexpedience, inexpedience]
taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others [syn: opportunism, self-interest, self-seeking]
Usage examples of "expedience".
His broadscale use of his shadow to seed terror was now his most necessary weapon of expedience.
I thought you meek and mild--a biddable girl whom I could marry and forget in a marriage of pure expedience.
So in the name of expedience, let's talk about Talador's reasons for not annexing Europe-American.
Royalty, as I have said, is excepted: but in this case everyone feels it to be an exception -- an anomaly in the modern world, in marked opposition to its customs and principles, and to be justified only by extraordinary special expediences, which, though individuals and nations differ in estimating their weight, unquestionably do in fact exist.