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expediences
n. (plural of expedience English)
Usage examples of "expediences".
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.