Expediency

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Expedition; haste; dispatch.

II. Expediency ·noun An expedition; enterprise; adventure.

III. Expediency ·noun The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability;

— sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude.