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Exigency

British pronunciation/ɛɡzˈaɪdʒnsi/
American pronunciation/ˌɛkˈsɪdʒənsi/
Exigency
[NOUN]
1

a pressing or urgent situation

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2

a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action

synonyms : emergency
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Examples
1The exigency of love is intense.
2The work of these poems feels profoundly ethical-- an ethical exigency of attention, care, complicity, response.
3So particularly, elderly uncared women-- medical support, food stock support, and in general Parivaar acts as a guardian of the entire local area in case of any exigency.
4The black people of Augusta had become free only through the exigencies of war, not through the intention of the Yankees.
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