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/ˈɛksɪdʒənt/
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[ UK /ɛɡzˈaɪdʒənt/ ]
[ UK /ɛɡzˈaɪdʒənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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demanding attention
regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous
clamant needs
insistent hunger
a crying need
an instant need -
requiring precise accuracy
became more exigent over his pronunciation
an exacting job
How To Use exigent In A Sentence
- Occasionally, a sufficiently serious religious news item appears that I find it necessary to eschew irony in order to assess, in a serious and sober way, the exigent theological quodlibet. Anjem Choudary and donkeys « Anglican Samizdat
- Sacraments are practical signs of an intentional order: they manifest God's intention to give spiritual benefits; this manifestation of the Divine intention is a title exigent of grace (op. cit., 59 sq., 123 sq. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
- His general improvidence and fecklessness kept his wife and family in perennially exigent financial circumstances, and his lawyers and accountants in a state bordering on despair.
- For his own system he claims the merit of establishing an invariable mode of causality, namely, that in every case by the sacrament validly received there is conferred a "title exigent of grace". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
- The scheme is a thoughtful and original response to what must be the increasingly exigent demands of the London restaurateur who has to contend with the changing fashions of a capricious clientele.
- Orda lingua corum, quod sonat medium, quia semper est in media hominum suorum: hoc excepto quod rectè ad meridiem nullus se collocat, quia ad pattem illam aperiuntur portæ Curiæ: Sed à dextris et à sinistris extendunt se quantum volunt secundum exigentiam locorum: dummodo rectè ante curiam, vel ex opposito curiæ non descendunt. The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
- A couple things, have you ever heard of the word exigent? SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
- He rushed up here and searched the house without a warrant because he had established exigent circumstances. WILD JUSTICE
- became more exigent over his pronunciation
- (d) All admit that the sacraments are, in some sense, the instrumental causes either of grace itself or of something else which will be a "title exigent of grace" (infra e). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
