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Definition of Extremity

Extremity The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country. One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man. The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form. The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering; greatest need or peril; extreme need; necessity. Related Definitions: Aggravated, An, Animal, Arm, As, Country, Degree, Extreme, Extremities, Farthest, Form, Inconvenience, Intense, Leg, Limb, Limit, Locomotive, Man, Most, Necessity, Need, Of, One, Or, Pain, Part, Peril, Point, Suffering, The, Utmost

Extremity Quotations Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. Soren Kierkegaard We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them. Meriwether Lewis At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it. Whittaker Chambers For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people. Mark Haddon One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful. Thomas Arnold

Extremity Translations extremity in Norwegian is ekstremitet, ytterpunkt extremity in Spanish is extremidad

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