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Definition of Expediencies
1. expediency [n] - See also: expediency
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expediencies
Literary usage of Expediencies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Meta-Christianity: Spiritism Established. Religion Re-etablished. Science by H. Croft Hiller (1903)
"Society, as enforcing particular expediencies, may be such an authority controlling
the consciences of particular individuals, as hypnotics. ..."
2. Progressivism--and After by William English Walling (1914)
"The principles of the Party, or the wider expediencies, were held to in the past,
according to his explanation, only because they did not then interfere ..."
3. The Debate Between the Church and Science, Or, The Ancient Hebraic Idea of by Francis William Upham (1860)
"... be a wise form of government under the outward expediencies of the case) ;
but she does say, both to the governor and the governed, that for the temper, ..."
4. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1878)
"Our own fear is that ecclesiastical expediencies would t,e too strong ...
Moral honesty requires that no expediencies be permitted to compromise principles. ..."
5. Russia as it is by Adam G. De Gurowski (1854)
"This development consists in the victory of human, mental and social liberty—his
absolute selfhood—over transient expediencies, destroying or limiting the ..."
6. Catholicism: Roman and Anglican by Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1899)
"... and to accept the latter is to exchange a moral supremacy, which permits no
secular expediencies or diplomacies, for one legal and economical, ..."
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