exigency

Definition

The demands or requirements of a situation.

Etymology

From Middle French exigence, from Late Latin exigentia (“urgency”) (from exigēns + -ia), from exigere (“to demand”).

Example Sentences

• "My business is with you, and you only. You should not have undertaken your office, unless prepared for its various exigencies."
• "No ordinary man could have escaped those frightful claws when Numa sprang from so short a distance, but Tarzan was no ordinary man. From earliest childhood his muscles had been trained by the fierce exigencies of his existence to act with the rapidity of thought."
• "[...] but these details I am compelled by exigencies of space to hold over until next month."

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