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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



... of the Lord in our glorious warfare. We appeal to students in theological seminaries, colleges, normal schools and female seminaries, to consider the claims of this great work. We make this appeal with special urgency to the Congregational institutions of the land, for it is from this body of Christians that we receive nearly all the funds with which we carry on our work, and there is a special fitness that the sons and daughters of these churches should ...
— American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 3, March, 1889 • Various
... the opposition of many among the soldiers; who, still continuing to entertain their former suspicions, remonstrated especially against the extreme imprudence of putting all the generals at once into the power of Tissaphernes. The urgency of Klearchus prevailed. Himself with four other generals—Proxenus, Menon, Agias, and Sokrates—and twenty captains—went to visit the satrap in his tent; about 200 of the soldiers going along with them, to make purchases for their own ...
— The Two Great Retreats of History • George Grote
... government of the Roman Republic. We to-day would speak to you of the actual question, such as it is debated in fact, if not by right, between the French government and ours. You will allow us to do it with the frankness demanded by the urgency of the situation, as well as the sympathy which ought to govern all relations between France and Italy. Our diplomacy is the truth, and the character given to your mission is a guaranty that the best possible interpretation ...
— At Home And Abroad - Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe • Margaret Fuller Ossoli
... kissed her. He murmured words of affection, deep and tender and true. With gentle urgency lie drew her to a sofa, made her sit down by his side, and placed her head against his breast, and took her emaciated hands in his. He seemed to have forgotten the presence of others in that sudden, that overwhelming feeling of compassion ...
— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille
... spare neither whip nor spur until you arrive in London, Master Kenneth. You must ride night and day; the matter is of the greatest urgency." ...
— The Tavern Knight • Rafael Sabatini


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