Definition of Expedeincy
{ Ex*pe"di*ence (?), 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.
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. Shak.
3. An expedition; enterprise;
adventure. [Obs.]
Forwarding this dear expedience.
Shak.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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