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urgence|ˈɜːdʒəns|
[a. F. urgence (1572), or f. urgent a.: see -ence.]
1. Earnest or pressing solicitation; importunity; = urgency 2.
c1592Marlowe Jew of Malta Prol., This all that he intends, (And that too, at the vrgence of some friends). 1624Heywood Gunaik. ii. 100 His urgence overcame the silence of the Oracle. 1634― Maidenh. well lost i. C 2, At my vrgence He promis't you a parley. 1879Howells L. Arosstook 166 She tried to remember at his urgence, something of her childhood. Ibid. 219 ‘Oh I give you the right,’ he cried with passionate urgence. 1893F. Adams Egypt 255 At the united urgence of France and England.., [he] resigned.
2. Urgent need; pressing necessity or importance; = urgency 1.
c1605Bodley in Trecentale Bodleianum (1913) 44 The Keeper may sometimes, vpon Vrgence of buisnesse,..desire a dispensation for his personal absence from his charge. 1610Heywood Gold. Age iv. i, Urgence calls me hence To an enforced absence. 1639Davenport New Trick i. i, His businesse craves dispatch, And is of serious urgence.
3. Quickness, expedition, haste.
1612J. Cotta Dang. Pract. Physic i. viii. 60 Drunkennesse, whose ordinarily knowne effects are..in some imaginations..quicke and readie, in some with as apparent vrgence, yet senselesse. 1868Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy 72 Late despatches sent With urgence by the Count of Bavien. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. x, We found good reason for the urgence and melancholy of the duck-birds.
4. Impelling force; = urgency 5.
1874S. Lanier Poems, Corn 13 Expirations strong Throb from young hickories..With stress and urgence bold of prisoned spring. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. v. xxxvi, A shrinking finally overcome by the urgence of poverty. 1876Dowden Poems 2 The lapsing waters tell The urgence un⁓controllable Which makes the trouble of their breast. |