Hypertext Webster Gateway: "expediency"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

expediency
n : the quality of being suited to the end in view [syn: {expedience}]
[ant: {inexpedience}, {inexpedience}]


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