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urgent (adj.)
mid-15c., from Middle French
urgent
"pressing, impelling" (14c.), from Latin
urgentem
(nominative
urgens
), present participle of
urgere
"to press hard, urge" (see
urge
(v.)). Related:
Urgently
.
