Expedience

Expedience
Expedience Ex*pe"di*ence, Expediency 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}. [1913 Webster]

Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice. --Cogan. [1913 Webster]

To determine concerning the expedience of action. --Sharp. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

2. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Making hither with all due expedience. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

3. An expedition; enterprise; adventure. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Forwarding this dear expedience. --Shak. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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  • expedience — mid 15c., advantage, benefit, from O.Fr. expedience, from L.L. expedientia, from expedientem (see EXPEDIENT (Cf. expedient)). Related: Expediency (1610s) …   Etymology dictionary

  • expedience — expedience, expediency Both forms are in use in the meaning ‘fitness, suitability, advantage’, although expediency is much more common (three times more, according to the evidence of the OEC). The rhythm of the sentence often determines which is… …   Modern English usage

  • expedience — I noun acceptability, advantageousness, appropriateness, aptness, commendableness, convenience, discrimination, expediency, favorableness, feasibility, felicitousness, fitness, fittingness, meetness, opportuneness, practicality, pragmatism,… …   Law dictionary

  • expédience — [ɛkspedjɑ̃s] n. f. ÉTYM. XIIIe; de 1. expédient. ❖ ♦ Vx. Caractère de ce qui est expédient. ⇒ Opportunité, utilité …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Expedience — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Specific subservience. < N PARAG:Expedience >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 expedience expedience expediency Sgm: N 1 desirableness desirableness desirability &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 fitness fitness &c.(agreement) 23 Sgm: N 1 …   English dictionary for students

  • expedience — expediency / expedience [n1] appropriateness; worth advantage, advantageousness, advisability, appositeness, aptness, benefit, convenience, desirability, effectiveness, efficiency, fitness, helpfulness, judiciousness, meetness, opportunism,… …   New thesaurus

  • expedience — noun a) The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; propriety or advisability under the particular circumstances of a case. We must spring into action with a relentless sense of expedience and… …   Wiktionary

  • expédience — (èk spé di an s ) s. f. Qualité de ce qui est expédient. HISTORIQUE    XIIIe s. •   Puis se souffri traïr et vendre, Batre, lier, cloer et pendre, Pour haster nostre expedience [libération], Son doulz costé ouvrir et fendre, J. DE MEUNG Tr. 321.… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • expedience — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Desirableness Nouns 1. expedience, expediency, desirableness, desirability, advisability, eligibility, seemliness, fitness, utility, propriety, opportunism, convenience, timeliness, suitability. See… …   English dictionary for students

  • expedience — expedient ► ADJECTIVE 1) advantageous. 2) advisable on practical rather than moral grounds. ► NOUN ▪ a means of attaining an end. DERIVATIVES expedience noun expediency noun expediently adverb …   English terms dictionary

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