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Definition of Expediential
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expediential
Literary usage of Expediential
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"... it is difficult to pick our way through this tangle of expediential legislation,
so it is likewise difficult to read in highly specialized organisms the ..."
2. Literary Friends and Acquaintance: A Personal Retrospect of American Authorship by William Dean Howells (1900)
"... who came somewhat before his time, and whose drastic criticism of our expediential
and mainly futile civilization would find more intelligent acceptance ..."
3. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1916)
"Pol- lowing this are clear presentations of Paul and Augustine, in the latter
especially the expediential adjustment of the Early Christian Church in the ..."
4. Music (1894)
"A start made in merely an expediential or traditional way is likely to lead to
a limited, if not a trivial, result. ..."
5. New Wars for Old: Being a Statement of Radical Pacifism in Terms of Force by John Haynes Holmes (1916)
"... in their worship of dead ancestors, their rearing of temples and tombs, their
reverence for tradition, their expediential philosophy, their stolidity, ..."
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