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expedience
(encz) | expedience,prospěšnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Expedience
(gcide) | 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.
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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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expedience
(wn) | expedience
n 1: the quality of being suited to the end in view [syn:
expedience, expediency] [ant: inexpedience,
inexpediency]
2: taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the
consequences for others [syn: opportunism, self-interest,
self-seeking, expedience] |
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inexpedience
(encz) | inexpedience,neúčelnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Expedience
(gcide) | 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.
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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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Inexpedience
(gcide) | Inexpedience \In`ex*pe"di*ence\, Inexpediency
\In`ex*pe"di*en*cy\, n.
The quality or state of being inexpedient; lack of fitness;
unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as, the
inexpedience of some measures.
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It is not the rigor but the inexpediency of laws and
acts of authority which makes them tyrannical. --Paley.
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inexpedience
(wn) | inexpedience
n 1: the quality of being unsuited to the end in view [syn:
inexpedience, inexpediency] [ant: expedience,
expediency] |
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