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Meaning of "exigence" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EXIGENCE

exigence  [ˈɛksɪdʒəns] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EXIGENCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Exigence is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EXIGENCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Exigent circumstance in United States law

An exigent circumstance, in the criminal procedure law of the United States, allows law enforcement, under certain circumstances, to enter a structure without a search warrant or, if they have a "knock and announce" warrant, without knocking and waiting for refusal. It must be a situation where people are in imminent danger, evidence faces imminent destruction, or a suspect's imminent escape.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EXIGENCE


allegiance
əˈliːdʒəns
birefringence
ˌbaɪrɪˈfrɪndʒəns
convergence
kənˈvɜːdʒəns
counterintelligence
ˌkaʊntərɪnˈtɛlɪdʒəns
diligence
ˈdɪlɪdʒəns
divergence
daɪˈvɜːdʒəns
emergence
ɪˈmɜːdʒəns
indigence
ˈɪndɪdʒəns
indulgence
ɪnˈdʌldʒəns
intelligence
ɪnˈtɛlɪdʒəns
intransigeance
ɪnˈtrænsɪdʒəns
intransigence
ɪnˈtrænsɪdʒəns
misintelligence
ˌmɪsɪnˈtelɪdʒəns
negligence
ˈnɛɡlɪdʒəns
resurgence
rɪˈsɜːdʒəns
subintelligence
ˌsʌbɪnˈtɛlɪdʒəns
unintelligence
ˌʌnɪnˈtɛlɪdʒəns
urgence
ˈɜːdʒəns
vengeance
ˈvɛndʒəns
vergence
ˈvɜːdʒəns

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EXIGENCE

exies
exigeant
exigencies
exigency
exigent
exigently
exigible
exiguity
exiguous
exiguously
exiguousness
exilable
exile
exiled
exiler
exilian
exilic
exility
eximious
eximiously

WORDS THAT END LIKE EXIGENCE

actionable intelligence
artificial intelligence
at your convenience
contingence
criminal negligence
Declaration of Indulgence
divulgence
effulgence
emotional intelligence
gross negligence
machine intelligence
marketing intelligence
mergence
overindulgence
re-emergence
refulgence
self-indulgence
social intelligence
submergence
swarm intelligence
tangence

Synonyms and antonyms of exigence in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «EXIGENCE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «exigence» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of exigence

Translation of «exigence» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EXIGENCE

Find out the translation of exigence to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of exigence from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «exigence» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

切慕
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

exigence
570 millions of speakers

English

exigence
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

exigence
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

exigence
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

exigence
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

exigence
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অত্যন্ত দু: খ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

exigence
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketegangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

exigence
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

exigence
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

exigence
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Exigence
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

exigence
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உடனடித் தேவை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तात्काळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gereklilik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

esigenza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

exigence
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

exigence
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

exigență
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

exigence
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

exigence
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

exigence
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

exigence
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of exigence

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EXIGENCE»

The term «exigence» is quite widely used and occupies the 38.649 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EXIGENCE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about exigence

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXIGENCE»

Discover the use of exigence in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to exigence and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Harbrace Guide to Writing, Concise Edition
Reading an image for rhetorical exigence Responses to exigencies are not limited to verbal ones. Visual responses to various exigencies constantly bombard us—from advertisements and promotions to personal communications and political ...
Cheryl Glenn, 2008
2
Twentieth-century Roots of Rhetorical Studies
Perhaps that support can be located in the notion not of situation but of exigence. I argue that it is not the situation that is dynamic in the case of the Muskie speech, but rather the exigence that is altered by Nixon's gaffe. Exigence is the focus of ...
Jim A. Kuypers, Andrew King, 2001
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Alternative Rhetorics: Challenges to the Rhetorical Tradition
Using the key component of rhetorical situation, exigence, to investigate the political condition post-Mao female writers intend to change, this chapter sheds light on the connections of rhetorical situation to the strategies and purposes of their ...
Laura Gray-Rosendale, Sibylle Gruber, 2001
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Encyclopedia of Rhetoric
The three primary constituents to which Bitzer devotes significant attention are exigence, audience, and constraints. An exigence, Bitzer asserts, is "an imperfection marked by urgency; it is a defect, an obstacle, something waiting to be done, ...
Thomas O. Sloane, 2001
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Social Movement to Address Climate Change: Local Steps for ...
GLOBAL WARMING, RHETORICAL EXIGENCE, AND COMMUNICATIVE ACTION In his classic essay on “the rhetorical situation,” Lloyd Bitzer noted that rhetoric always responds to a particular exigence—a circumstance demanding attention ...
Danielle Endres, Leah M. Sprain, Tarla Rai Peterson, 2009
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The Writer's Harbrace Handbook, Brief Edition
The writer in a rhetorical situation is the person who identifies the exigence, the reason or problem that impels that person to write in the first place. When purposeful language can resolve the exigence, the situation is rhetorical. The writer then ...
Cheryl Glenn, Loretta Gray, 2007
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Writing Genres
Bitzer offers one of the most fully detailed definitions of what he calls rhetorical situation: Rhetorical situation may be defined as a complex of persons, events, objects, and relations presenting an actual or potential exigence which can be ...
Amy J. Devitt, 2008
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Genre In The New Rhetoric
If rhetorical situation is not material and objective, but a social construct, or semiotic structure, how are we to understand exigence, which is at the core of situation? Exigence must be located in the social world, neither in a private perception ...
Aviva Freedman, Peter Medway, 2003
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Contemporary Pragmatism. Volume 6, Number 2. December 2009
Exigence and Explanation Explanation-seeking does not begin with a question that asks for an explanation, but rather with what leads to posing the question. In Lloyd Bitzer's essay, “The Rhetorical Situation” (1968), he claims that there are ...
Mitchell Aboulafia, John R. Shook, 2009
10
Linked Courses for General Education and Integrative ...
a rhetorical situation and an underlying ''exigence,'' which may be the source of a textual response or may be called into existence because someone—a rhetor— decides that a textual response is necessary and possible. This interconnection ...
Margot Soven, Dolores Lehr, Siskanna Naynaha, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXIGENCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term exigence is used in the context of the following news items.
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Schön, dass ier is Paradis cho send!
Autour de la table, on évoque les critères d'exigence de l'ACSI (le Guide du routard des campings en Europe) qui forcent les Froelich à ... «Le Temps, Jul 15»
2
RDC-Filimbi : "Le pouvoir de Kinshasa a peur de nous car on est …
Si les parents dans cette famille n'ont aucune exigence envers leurs enfants, n'importe quel garçon peut entrer et sortir comme il veut dans la ... «Afrik.com, Jul 15»
3
JO 2024 : une candidature parisienne à risques
... comme c'est toujours le cas, assorti d'entorses à la législation ordinaire du travail ou l'exigence très en vogue de son « assouplissement ». «TV5MONDE Actualités, Jul 15»
4
Florence Weber, sociologue et anthropologue
Une exigence : la clarté, afin de répondre à la curiosité des auditeurs de RFI. Ceux-ci sont d'ailleurs invités à réagir à leurs propos et à ... «RFI, Jul 15»
5
Importation / Les véhicules neufs bloqués à Jijel prochainement …
Mais par la suite, cette exigence a été assoupli. A noter, par ailleurs, que désormais l'importation des véhicules, dont le quota é été fixé à 400 ... «algerie-focus.com, Jul 15»
6
Julian Assange : « En m'accueillant, la France accomplirait un geste …
... menacés de leur vie, d'une constitution qui oblige le monde à ouvrir les yeux par la noblesse d'une telle exigence, elle a ouvert une voie qui, ... «Le Monde, Jul 15»
7
Sur les pas d'un aventurier français disparu en Alaska
... histoires vraies sélectionnées pour leur qualité littéraire et leur exigence journalistique (vous pouvez les acheter à l'unité ou vous abonner). «Rue89, Jul 15»
8
« Grexit » : une guerre idéologique ?
Elle contenait également une exigence de renégociation de la dette portant sur la partie détenue par le Fonds européen de stabilité financière ... «IRIS, Jul 15»
9
Saison 2015-2016 : l'art de l'équilibre aux Célestins
Deux événements majeurs, qui ont déjà fait leur preuve, viendront ponctuer une saison où l'exigence ne le cède jamais à l'abondance de ... «LyonCapitale.fr, Jul 15»
10
INDE : New Delhi ne surveille pas la Caritas India
Sous couvert de faire respecter l'exigence légale de neutralité politique à laquelle sont astreintes les ONG étrangères ou financées sur fonds ... «La Croix, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Exigence [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/exigence>. May 2024 ».
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