inexpedience

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INEXPE'DIENCE INEXPE'DIENCY, noun [in and expedience.] Want of fitness; impropriety; unsuitableness to the purpose. The inexpedience of a measure is to be determined by the prospect of its advancing the purpose intended or not.
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