Expedience

Definition of Expedience

Ex`pe´di`ence

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 or principle. 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. Making hither with all due expedience. - Shak.
	3.	An expedition; enterprise; adventure. Forwarding this dear expedience. - Shak.

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