exigent

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However, with Rosemary's sudden success in pictures Mrs. Speers felt that it was time she were spiritually weaned; it would please rather than pain her if this somewhat bouncing, breathless and exigent idealism would focus on something except herself.†  (source) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, 1925

In the new law courts—for Fort Mayne was over—the lawyers were as busy as bees, issuing writs for attainder, chancery, chevisance, disseisin, distraint, distress, embracery, exigent, fieri facias, maintenance, replevin, right of way, oyer and terminer, scot and lot, Quorum bonorum, Sic et non, Pro et contra, Jus primae noctis, and Questio quid juris?†  (source) T. H. White, The Once and Future King, 1939

Martin was not too pleased by the promise, for Tredgold's set were somewhat exigent.†  (source) Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith, 1925

Then she threw off her exigent vis-à-vis with a polite but clipped parting that she had just learned from Dick, and went over to join him.†  (source) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, 1925

She did not want him to be like other men, yet here were the same exigent demands, as if he wanted to take some of herself away, carry it off in his pocket.†  (source) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, 1925

Attractive women of nineteen and of twenty-nine are alike in their breezy confidence; on the contrary, the exigent womb of the twenties does not pull the outside world centripetally around itself.†  (source) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, 1925

Why do you cross me in this exigent?  (source) William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 1599

...Thou art sworn, Eros, That when the exigent should come which now Is come indeed, when I should see behind me Th' inevitable prosecution of Disgrace and horror, that on my command, Thou then wouldst kill me. Do it. The time is come.  (source) William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1606