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Urgency

noun

The state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity.

Pressing importance requiring speedy action.

An urgent situation calling for prompt action. "They departed hurriedly because of some great urgency in their affairs"

Insistent solicitation and entreaty. Synonyms: importunity, urging.

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"Urgency" Quotes from Famous Books

... pause in the urgency of business permitted Hugh to take a day's holiday. One of these falling soon after the frosts had opened the burrs of the chestnut- trees, and the shells of the hickories, Fleda seized upon it for a nutting frolic. They took Philetus, ...

— Queechy, Volume II • Elizabeth Wetherell

... to by the bishop arose out of the first attempts to effect the disembarkation of the military stores and equipments from the French shipping, as also to forward them when landed. The case was one of extreme urgency; and proportionate allowance must be made for the French general. Every moment might bring the British cruisers in sight,—two important expeditions had already been baffled in that way,—and the absolute certainty, known to all parties alike, that delay, under ...

— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey

... needs a prolonged holiday, but somewhere in his youth he finds inexhaustible reserves of power which he conserves into his middle age. In this way he has found the secret of his temporary Empire. It is for this reason that the man in command is never too busy to see a caller who has the urgency of vital business at ...

— Success (Second Edition) • Max Aitken Beaverbrook

... chapter I have emphasised the urgency of examining with care and regularity all the principal papers. Nothing is more important to the outside contributor than a thorough comprehension of their various policies and their essential differences. Many beginners, with a quite creditable literary ...

— Journalism for Women - A Practical Guide • E.A. Bennett

... of which he speaks, a certain tract of time, across which the past must appear in a more or less distant perspective. All the variety obtainable by a shifting relation to the story in time is thus in the author's hand; the safe serenity of a far retrospect, the promising or threatening urgency of the present, every gradation between the two, can be drawn into the whole effect of the book, and all of it without any change of the seeing eye. It is a liberty that may help the story indefinitely, raising this matter ...

— The Craft of Fiction • Percy Lubbock

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