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Urgency   /ˈərdʒənsi/   Listen
Urgency

noun
1.
The state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity.
2.
Pressing importance requiring speedy action.
3.
An urgent situation calling for prompt action.  "They departed hurriedly because of some great urgency in their affairs"
4.
Insistent solicitation and entreaty.  Synonyms: importunity, urging.





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"Urgency" Quotes from Famous Books



... wanted to know. Then the real urgency of the situation must have penetrated his mental isolation. ...
— Storm Over Warlock • Andre Norton
... a flame; hoping, by that means, to disperse and scatter these complaints and charges, and to allay their jealousy; the city usually throwing herself upon him alone, and trusting to his sole conduct, upon the urgency of great affairs and public dangers, by reason of his authority ...
— The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch - Being Parts of The "Lives" of Plutarch • Plutarch
... that to do with the matter at hand? Drew wondered. But from the urgency of the demand he knew it did mean a great deal ...
— Rebel Spurs • Andre Norton
... in '74, and at Poison Springs, as Narcisse Duplin told me, where he had to choose between leaving them to the deadly waters, or, prevented from the spring, made witless by thirst, to mill about until they piled up and killed threescore in their midst. By no urgency of the dogs could they be moved forward or scattered until night fell with coolness and returning sanity. Nor does the imperfect gregariousness of man always save us from ill-considered rushes or strangulous in-turnings ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park
... on the heads of those who refused the supplies. Henry IV. had certainly not neglected this rebellion in Wales, though evidently the measures adopted against the insurgents were not so vigorous at the commencement as the (p. 113) urgency of the case required. His exchequer was exhausted, and he had other business in hand to drain off the supplies as fast as they could possibly be collected. He was, therefore, contented for the present to keep the rebels in check, without attempting to crush them by pouring ...
— Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 - Memoirs of Henry the Fifth • J. Endell Tyler


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