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ur⋅gent

  [ur-juhnt]
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–adjective
1. compelling or requiring immediate action or attention; imperative; pressing: an urgent matter.
2. insistent or earnest in solicitation; importunate, as a person: an urgent pleader.
3. expressed with insistence, as requests or appeals: an urgent tone of voice.
Origin:
1490–1500; < L urgent- (s. of urgēns), prp. of urgēre to urge; see -ent

Related forms:
ur⋅gent⋅ly, adverb
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urgent 
1456, from M.Fr. urgent "pressing, impelling" (14c.), from L. urgentem (nom. urgens), prp. of urgere "to press hard, urge" (see urge). Urgency is from 1540.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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