Expedience vs. Expediency — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Expedience and Expediency
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Expedience
Expediency.
Expediency
Appropriateness to the purpose at hand.
Expedience
(Obsolete) Speed; haste.
Expediency
Adherence to self-serving means
A politician, guided by expediency rather than principle.
Expedience
(uncountable) The quality of being fit or suitable to cause some desired end or the purpose intended; propriety or advisability under the particular circumstances of a case.
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Expediency
A means; an expedient.
Expedience
Speed, haste or urgency.
Expediency
(uncountable) The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation.
Expedience
Something that is expedient.
Expediency
(uncountable) Pursuit of the course of action that brings the desired effect even if it is unjust or unprincipled.
Expedience
(obsolete) An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
Expediency
(obsolete) Haste; dispatch.
Expedience
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.
To determine concerning the expedience of action.
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.
Expediency
(countable) An expedient.
Expedience
Expedition; haste; dispatch.
Making hither with all due expedience.
Expediency
The quality of being suited to the end in view
Expedience
An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
Forwarding this dear expedience.
Expedience
The quality of being suited to the end in view
Expedience
Taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others
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