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Urgency   /ˈərdʒənsi/   Listen
Urgency

noun
1.
The state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity.
2.
Pressing importance requiring speedy action.
3.
An urgent situation calling for prompt action.  "They departed hurriedly because of some great urgency in their affairs"
4.
Insistent solicitation and entreaty.  Synonyms: importunity, urging.





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... force, and it is believed that four new regiments, two of infantry and two of mounted men, will be sufficient to meet the present exigency. If it were necessary carefully to weigh the cost in a case of such urgency, it would be shown that the additional expense would ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 3 (of 4) of Volume 5: Franklin Pierce • James D. Richardson
... and fellowship between men and women is an idea at least as old as Plato and one that has recurred wherever civilization has reached a phase in which men and women were sufficiently released from militant and economic urgency to talk and read and think. But it has never yet been, at least in the historical period and in any but isolated social groups, a working structural idea. The working structural idea is the Patriarchal Family in which the woman is inferior and submits herself ...
— First and Last Things • H. G. Wells
... education simply from this point, much will be found to emphasize its urgency. The colored people have been limited to a very meagre variety of food. Pork with corn-bread improperly prepared has been the chief staple of a majority of them. In our different boarding institutions and in ...
— The American Missionary--Volume 39, No. 02, February, 1885 • Various
... Vargas correspondence. Even when the Pope—much to the ambassador's disgust—thought of complying with Antoine's request to intercede with Philip for some indemnification for the loss of the kingdom of Navarre, he took the pains to explain that his urgency would not amount to importunity, much less to a command; his aim was only to feed Antoine with false hopes while France was in so precarious a situation: "esto seria por cumplir con Vandome y entretenerle, por estar Francia en los terminos en que esta," etc. ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... or intemperate outbursts. But these results were unintentional. The Valladolid judges were well aware from the outset that no time was to be lost. As early as July 29, 1572, they delegated a piece of work to one of their commissaries in Salamanca, and impressed on him the urgency of dispatch.[181] They secured from Benito Rodriguez, the commissary in question, greater speed than they attained themselves. This may have been due to accident, or to incompetence on their part. But the policy of continual adjournment could not be prolonged ...
— Fray Luis de Leon - A Biographical Fragment • James Fitzmaurice-Kelly


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