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.