Hypertext Webster Gateway: "inexpedience"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Inexpedience \In`ex*pe"di*ence\, Inexpediency
\In`ex*pe"di*en*cy\, n.
The quality or state of being inexpedient; want of fitness;
unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as, the
inexpedience of some measures.
It is not the rigor but the inexpediency of laws and
acts of authority which makes them tyrannical. --Paley.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
inexpedience
n : the quality of being unsuited to the end in view [syn: {inexpediency}]
[ant: {expedience}, {expedience}]
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