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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Urgent \Ur"gent\, a. [L. urgens, p. pr of urgere: cf F.
urgent. See {Urge}.]
Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity;
calling for immediate attention; instantly important. ``The
urgent hour.'' --Shak.
Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary. --Hooker.
The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they
might send them out of the land in haste. --Ex. xii.
33.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
urgent
adj : compelling immediate action "too pressing to permit of
longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'";
"bridges in urgent need of repair" [syn: {pressing}]
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