exigent
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From Latin exigēns, present active participle of exigō (“demand, require”).
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exigent (comparative more exigent, superlative most exigent)
- Urgent; pressing; needing immediate action.
- 2003, Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogations, U.S. Department of Defence
- Article 2 also provides that acts of torture cannot be justified on the grounds of exigent circumstances, such as state of war or public emergency, or on orders from a superior officer or public authority.
- 2003, Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogations, U.S. Department of Defence
- Demanding; requiring great effort.
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urgent; needing immediate action
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demanding; needing great effort
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exigent (plural exigents)
- (archaic) Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency.
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v], page 104, column 2:
- Theſe Eyes, like Lampes, whoſe waſting Oyle is ſpent, / Waxe dimme, as drawing to their Exigent.
- 1611, [Miles Smith], “The Translators to the Reader”, in The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:
- Therefore as one complaineth, that always in the Senate of Rome [Cicero 5° de finibus.], there was one or other that called for an interpreter: ſo leſt the Church be driuen to the like exigent, it is neceſſary to haue tranſlations in a readineſſe.
- (archaic) The amount that is required.
- 1840 March, Robert Browning, Sordello, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, book the third, page 102:
- [H]is enterprise / Marked out anew, its exigent of wit / Apportioned, she at liberty to sit / And scheme against the next emergence, […]
- (obsolete, British, law) A writ in proceedings before outlawry.
- 1607, John Cowell, The Interpreter:
- They also make forthe writs of executions, and of seifin, writs of super seders, for appearance to exigents
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extremity
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin exigentem, present active participle of exigō (“demand, require”).
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- IPA(key): (Central) [əɡ.ziˈʒen]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [əɡ.ziˈʒent]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [eɡ.ziˈd͡ʒent]
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exigent m or f (masculine and feminine plural exigents)
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- “exigent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “exigent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “exigent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “exigent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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exigent
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exigent
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Borrowed from French exigeant, from Latin exigens.
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exigent m or n (feminine singular exigentă, masculine plural exigenți, feminine and neuter plural exigente)
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Declension of exigent
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
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indefinite | exigent | exigentă | exigenți | exigente | ||
definite | exigentul | exigenta | exigenții | exigentele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | exigent | exigente | exigenți | exigente | ||
definite | exigentului | exigentei | exigenților | exigentelor |