Expedience /(?)/

Ex·pe·di·ence

Expedience

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.
    Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice.
    — Cogan.
    To determine concerning the expedience of action.
    — Sharp.
    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.
  2. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Obs.]
    Making hither with all due expedience.
  3. An expedition; enterprise; adventure. [Obs.]
    Forwarding this dear expedience.