{ }, n. 1. The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude or principle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice. Cogan. [ 1913 Webster ]

To determine concerning the expedience of action. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

Much declamation may be heard in the present day against expediency, as if it were not the proper object of a deliberative assembly, and as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled. Whately. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Making hither with all due expedience. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An expedition; enterprise; adventure. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Forwarding this dear expedience. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The quality or state of being inexpedient; lack of fitness; unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as, the inexpedience of some measures. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is not the rigor but the inexpediency of laws and acts of authority which makes them tyrannical. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]