Exigent

/ˈɛk.sɪ.d͡ʒənt/ · adjective

Meaning

Urgent; pressing; needing immediate action..

Definitions by Sense

1. Urgent; pressing; needing immediate action.
2. Demanding; requiring great effort.
3. (archaic) Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency.
4. (archaic) The amount that is required.
5. (obsolete, British, law) A writ in proceedings before outlawry.

Example Sentences

2003, Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogations, U.S. Department of Defence Article 2 also provides that acts of torture cannot be justified on the grounds of exigent circumstances, such as state of war or public emergency, or on orders from a superior officer or public authority.

Theſe Eyes, like Lampes, whoſe waſting Oyle is ſpent, / Waxe dimme, as drawing to their Exigent.

Therefore as one complaineth, that always in the Senate of Rome [Cicero 5° de finibus.], there was one or other that called for an interpreter: ſo leſt the Church be driuen to the like exigent, it is neceſſary to haue tranſlations in a readineſſe.

[H]is enterprise / Marked out anew, its exigent of wit / Apportioned, she at liberty to sit / And scheme against the next emergence, […]

They also make forthe writs of executions, and of seifin, writs of super seders, for appearance to exigents

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• more exigent
• most exigent
• exigeant
• exigents

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