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[exigent 词源字典] - exigent: see exact
[exigent etymology, exigent origin, 英语词源] - exigent (adj.)
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- 1660s, "urgent," a back-formation from exigency or else from Latin exigentem (nominative exigens), present participle of exigere "to demand; drive out, drive forth" (see exact (v.)).