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exigence|ˈɛksɪdʒəns|
Also 7 exegence.
[a. F. exigence, ad. L. exigentia, f. exigent-em, pr. pple. of exigĕre: see exigent.]
1. The state or fact of being exigent; urgent want; need, necessity.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xx. (Arb.) 58 A priuat person, whose manner of life and calling hath no such exigence. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. viii. xvi, Their violence..Was none, or weak in time of greatest exigence. 1691T. H[ale] New Invent. 130 So many..as will suffice in time of Exigence. 1849C. Brontë Shirley xxi, A churchwarden who feels the exigence of whitewash.
†b. What is needed or required; demands, exigency, need, requirement; = exigency 2. Obs.
1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. i. xiv. (1611) 43 According to the exigence of that speciall end whereunto they are intended. 1642Jer. Taylor Episc. (1647) 92 The nature of his offices..and the whole exigence of the Epistle proclaime him Bishop. 1676Hale Contempl. i. 443 For the convenient support of the Exigences of my nature and condition. 1710Tatler No. 252 ⁋2 If we drink the least Proportion beyond the Exigence of Thirst. 1784Cowper Task ii. 557 Ghostly counsel, if it..fall Below the exigence. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India II. iv. ix. 287 Supervisors, with powers adapted to the exigence of the case.
2. A pressing state of circumstances, or one demanding immediate action or remedy; a sudden or pressing necessity; an emergency; a difficulty, extremity, strait.
1643True Informer 15 His Majesty..summoned all his Nobles to appeare, to advise with them in this exigence. 1671Crowne Juliana iv, A warlike Fantome By heaven created for this exigence. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. ii. iv. (1852) 124 Mr. Winthrop..being..in this exigence chosen the governour. 1726De Foe Hist. Devil i. xi. (1840) 160 God himself relieved the Israelites in every exigence. 1824Scott Redgauntlet xxiii, Escape..as unexpected as the exigence was threatening. 1863Mrs. C. Clarke Shaks. Char. xvii. 434 Falstaff is equal to any exigence.
¶3. As a personal quality: Exactingness. rare. [After Fr. use; cf. exigeant.]
[1839Lady Lytton Cheveley (ed. 2) I. ii. 35 Mortgaging my time and patience by her exigence every hour in the day.] 1859Helps Friends in C. Ser. ii. II. 102 The habit of exigence. That last is not a common English word. |