Thesaurus / exigency
other words for exigency
- contingency
- vicissitude
- acuteness
- constraint
- crisis
- criticalness
- crossroad
- demand
- dilemma
- distress
- duress
- emergency
- extremity
- fix
- hardship
- imperativeness
- jam
- juncture
- necessity
- need
- pass
- pickle
- pinch
- plight
- predicament
- pressure
- quandary
- requirement
- scrape
- stress
- urgency
- want
- wont
- demandingness
- exigence
- needfulness
- pressingness
- turning point
- zero hour
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By this standard legislative bodies have been wont to judge the exigency of this mighty question.
Thus has poor mortality been beaten and shapen on the anvils of compulsion and exigency.
FEMINISM AND SEX-EXTINCTIONARABELLA KENEALY
Amongst the tales of Mr Poe are several papers which, we suppose, in the exigency of language, we must denominate philosophical.
It is a substance which we are ever in want of; it is therefore deposited on every side, and is ready for every exigency.
There is no exigency which should be allowed to overawe Congress in the performance of its constitutional duties.
A REPORT OF THE DEBATES AND PROCEEDINGS IN THE SECRET SESSIONS OF THE CONFERENCE CONVENTIONLUCIUS EUGENE CHITTENDEN
These are questions ever rising to his mind; and what contrivance, what preparation, what spirit of exigency do they evoke!
ONE OF THEMCHARLES JAMES LEVER
The orders of the day have been filled with various plans to meet the exigency.
CHARLES SUMNER; HIS COMPLETE WORKS, V. 4-20CHARLES SUMNER
But the greater the exigency the greater were the exertions of Congress.
LIFE AND TIMES OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME 2JOHN FREDERICK SCHROEDER
Therefore go and do thy best; but, I tell thee, that thou art little better than nothing in the present exigency.
THE SLEEPING BARDELLIS WYNNE
The fact is, the majority of inverts flock together not from exigency, but from choice.
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WORDS RELATED TO EXIGENCY
- Moira
- accident
- action
- adjunct
- affair
- article
- case
- cause
- coincidence
- concern
- contingency
- crisis
- destiny
- detail
- doom
- element
- episode
- event
- exigency
- fact
- factor
- fate
- feature
- fortuity
- go
- happening
- happenstance
- incident
- intervention
- item
- juncture
- kismet
- lot
- matter
- occasion
- occurrence
- particular
- phase
- place
- point
- portion
- proviso
- respect
- scene
- status
- stipulation
- supervention
- thing
- time
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