The Only Use of
expedient
in
Things Fall Apart
- Everything was possible, he told his energetic flock, but everything was not expedient.
p. 178.9expedient = practical
Definitions:
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(1)
(expedient) convenient and practical, but sometimes not the best or most moral choice
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, expedient can also imply that an action was taken for reasons of self-interest rather than for moral reasons.
In the sense of speedy, the word is less commonly used today than in the past; though it may still be used as in "an expedient end" or "an expedient amount of time," or "We are depending upon your expediency."