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EXPEDIENCY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being suited to the end in view
Synonyms:
expedience; expediency
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("expediency" is a kind of...):
advantage; vantage (the quality of having a superior or more favorable position)
Antonym:
inexpediency (the quality of being unsuited to the end in view)
Derivation:
expedient (appropriate to a purpose; practical)
Context examples:
More was not expected by one who, while seeing all the obligation and expediency of submission and forbearance, saw also with sympathetic acuteness of feeling all that must be hourly grating to a girl like Susan.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The longer she considered it, the greater was her sense of its expediency.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
After dancing with each other at a proper number of balls, the young people justified these opinions, and an engagement, with a due reference to the absent Sir Thomas, was entered into, much to the satisfaction of their respective families, and of the general lookers-on of the neighbourhood, who had, for many weeks past, felt the expediency of Mr. Rushworth's marrying Miss Bertram.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Sam, loud and overbearing as he was, she rather regretted when he went, for he was clever and intelligent, and glad to be employed in any errand in the town; and though spurning the remonstrances of Susan, given as they were, though very reasonable in themselves, with ill-timed and powerless warmth, was beginning to be influenced by Fanny's services and gentle persuasions; and she found that the best of the three younger ones was gone in him: Tom and Charles being at least as many years as they were his juniors distant from that age of feeling and reason, which might suggest the expediency of making friends, and of endeavouring to be less disagreeable.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
