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expedience (not pre-S.; both senses only S.)
1. speed, dispatch R2 II. i. 287, H5 IV. iii. 70.
2. enterprise, expedition 1H4 I. i. 33 “In forwarding this dear expedience,” Ant. I. ii. 191.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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