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{ Ex*pe"di*ence (?), Ex*pe"di*en*cy (?), }, n. 1. 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.
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Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice. Cogan.
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To determine concerning the expedience of action. Sharp.
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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. Whately.
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2. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Obs.]
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Making hither with all due expedience. Shak.
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3. An expedition; enterprise; adventure. [Obs.]
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Forwarding this dear expedience. Shak.
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