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exigences

NOUN

difficulty; demand

Synonyms

WEAK

acuteness constraint contingency crisis criticalness crossroad demandingness dilemma distress duress emergency extremity fix hardship imperativeness jam juncture necessity need needfulness pass pickle pinch plight predicament pressingness pressure quandary requirement scrape stress turning point urgency vicissitude want wont zero hour

Antonyms

WEAK

ease easiness ordinariness

NOUN

demand

Synonyms

WEAK

demands exigencies exigency necessity need needs requirement requirements want

NOUN

crisis

Synonyms

WEAK

circumstance climacteric crossroad difficulty dilemma emergency exigency fix hardship head juncture pickle pinch predicament quandary turning point urgency zero hour

Example Sentences

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The most striking lines, the most eloquent tirades, arise less from the exigences of the drama than from the constant desire of the poet to give expression to his love of Provence.

From Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Downer, Charles Alfred

If travelers have ample transportation, it will be a wise precaution, in passing through the buffalo range, to lay in a supply of jerked meat for future exigences.

From The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions by Marcy, Randolph Barnes

This may be fully allowed, yet it does not meet the exigences of the case.

From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry

His weakness was not, however, shared by the ladies who, having him fast in their grips, knelt, under the exigences of the situation, beside him.

From A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William

Owing to exigences of space reference to several important new books has necessarily been postponed.

From Children's Books and Their Illustrators by White, Gleeson