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Webster 1913 Edition
Expediency
{
, Ex-pe′di-ence
,Ex-pe′di-en-cy
, }Noun.
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
. Divine wisdom discovers no
expediency
in vice. Cogan.
To determine concerning the
expedience
of action. Sharp.
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.
2.
Expedition; haste; dispatch.
[Obs.]
Making hither with all due
expedience
. Shakespeare
3.
An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
[Obs.]
Forwarding this dear
expedience
. Shakespeare