单词 | urgence |
释义 | urgencen. 1. Earnest or pressing solicitation; importunity; = urgency n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > earnest request or entreaty > importunity or urgency instancec1340 importunityc1425 instancy1515 importunateness?1526 importunacy1548 importancea1555 importancy1576 opportunitya1586 urgencec1592 urgency1611 clamorousnessa1617 pressingness1661 precariousness1666 supplicancy1728 beseechingness1863 imploringness1863 pleadingness1866 demandingness1930 c1592 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta Prol. This all that he intends, (And that too, at the vrgence of some friends). 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον ii. 100 His urgence overcame the silence of the Oracle. 1634 T. Heywood Maidenhead Lost i. C 2 At my vrgence He promis't you a parley. 1879 W. D. Howells Lady of Aroostook 166 She tried to remember at his urgence, something of her childhood. 1879 W. D. Howells Lady of Aroostook 219 ‘Oh I give you the right,’ he cried with passionate urgence. 1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 255 At the united urgence of France and England.., [he] resigned. 2. Urgent need; pressing necessity or importance; = urgency n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > urgency urgency1540 urgentness1598 urgencec1605 pressingness1661 the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > need or want > [noun] > a need or requirement > urgent or pressing > urgency urgency1540 urgentness1598 urgencec1605 pressingness1661 pressure1812 c1605 Bodley in Trecentale Bodleianum (1913) 44 The Keeper may sometimes, vpon Vrgence of buisnesse,..desire a dispensation for his personal absence from his charge. 1611 T. Heywood Golden Age iv. sig. H Vrgence cals me hence To an inforced absence. 1639 R. Davenport New Tricke to cheat Divell i. i His businesse craves dispatch, And is of serious urgence. 3. Quickness, expedition, haste. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [noun] > expedition or dispatch speedOE diligence1490 expedition1529 dispatch1570 expedience1597 urgence1612 navity1623 expediteness1635 1612 J. Cotta Short Discouerie Dangers Ignorant Practisers Physicke i. viii. 60 Drunkennesse, whose ordinarily knowne effects are..in some imaginations..quicke and readie, in some with as apparent vrgence, yet senselesse. 1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Spanish Gypsy i. 72 Late despatches sent With urgence by the Count of Bavien. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. x. 109 We found good reason for the urgence and melancholy of the duck-birds. 4. Impelling force; = urgency n. 5. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > quality, force, or power of incitation1656 urgency1816 urgence1874 impellingness1922 1874 S. Lanier Corn in Poems 13 Expirations strong Throb from young hickories..With stress and urgence bold of prisoned spring. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxvi. 63 A shrinking finally overcome by the urgence of poverty. 1876 E. Dowden Poems 2 The lapsing waters tell The urgence un~controllable Which makes the trouble of their breast. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.c1592 |
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