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Demanding attention
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exigent
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 urgent; needing immediate action. 2 demanding; needing great effort. n. 1 (context archaic English) Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency 2 (context obsolete UK legal English) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exigent \Ex`i*gent\, a. [L. exigens, -entis, p. pr. of exigere to drive out or forth, require, exact. See Exact .] Exacting or requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical. ``At this exigent moment.'' --Burke.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need" [syn: clamant , crying , insistent , instant ] requiring precise accuracy; "an exacting ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "urgent," a back-formation from exigency or else from Latin exigentem (nominative exigens ), present participle of exigere "to demand; drive out, drive forth" (see exact (v.)).
Usage examples of exigent.
The name carries conviction from the start, and pronounced a la francaise, with the accent equal upon all the syllables, is quite as Spanish as the most exigent of comic operas could possibly desire.
He may dream of a beautiful and complaisant mistress, less exigent and mercurial than any a bachelor may hope to discover--and stand aghast at admitting her to his bank-book, his family-tree and his secret ambitions.
With warrantless searches, if dope is discovered the courts always think of an exigent circumstance justifying the intrusion.
A few people fell away, and went to less exigent churches, but of these almost all came traipsing back, admitting with humility that religion was more fun at St.
We think we are not breaching the confidence of the Confessional if we merely remark that in these last months the brothers' own confessions have become phantasmatical in the extreme, and bloodcurdling to hear, and necessitating the most exigent penances for absolution.