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exigents

exigents is the plural of exigent.

Meaning of exigent

Noun

exigent (plural exigents)

  1. (archaic) Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency.
    • Theſe Eyes, like Lampes, whoſe waſting Oyle is ſpent, / Waxe dimme, as drawing to their Exigent.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]...
  2. (archaic) The amount that is required.
    • [H]is enterprise / Marked out anew, its exigent of wit / Apportioned, she at liberty to sit / And scheme against the next emergence, […]1840 March, Robert Browning, “Book the Third”, in Sordello, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 102
  3. (UK, obsolete) A writ in proceedings before outlawry.
    • They also make forthe writs of executions, and of seifin, writs of super seders, for appearance to exigents1607, John Cowell, The Interpreter

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Questions about exigents

What is exigents the plural of?
Exigents is the plural of exigent.

Words near exigents in the dictionary

  1. exigent
  2. exigent circumstance
  3. exigenter
  4. exigenters
  5. exigently
  6. exigents
  7. exigible
  8. exiguate
  9. exiguated
  10. exiguates
  11. exiguating

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