EXPEDIENCES
Noun
expediences
plural of expedience
Source: Wiktionary
EXPEDIENCE
Ex*pe"di*ence, Ex*pe"di*en*cy,, n.
1. The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or
suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-
interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes
contradistinguished from moral rectitude.
Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice. Cogan.
To determine concerning the expedience of action. Sharp.
Much declamation may be heard in the present day against expediency,
as if it were not the proper object of a deliberative assembly, and
as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled. Whately.
2. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Obs.]
Making hither with all due expedience. Shak.
3. An expedition; enterprise; adventure. [Obs.]
Forwarding this dear expedience. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition