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Definition of Exigencies
1. exigency [n] - See also: exigency
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exigencies
Literary usage of Exigencies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Constitution of the United States of America: With an Alphabetical by William Hickey, United States (1854)
"... to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render
the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of ..."
2. History of the Hartford Convention: With a Review of the Policy of the by Theodore Dwight (1833)
"... or in imminent danger of invasion ; or that either of the exigencies recognised
by the constitutional laws of the United States existed. ..."
3. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"... as it is to manage bis small domain in such a mode as to secure through the
year a supply of those articles which his family exigencies require. ..."
4. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"These exigencies affect the sensitiveness of the apparatus ; it is not a less
serious inconvenience that the reservoir must be placed near the wall of the ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(77) The propriety of reserving himself for the future exigencies of the church,
the example of several holy bishops,(78) and the ..."
6. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1809)
"... which had been under AFTER having gone all round the lake of Confiance, I
directed my journey from .portion of tax for the public exigencies of the ..."
7. The Century (1902)
"marks as these have suffered in preserving their dignity during the exigencies
of subway construction were plain to any one who saw the statue of Samuel S. ..."
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