Extremity
Extremity , noun
[Latin extremitas: compare French extrémité.]
1.
The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country.
They sent fleets... to the extremities of Ethiopia.
2.
(Zoology) One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man.
3.
The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form.
The extremity of bodily pain.
4.
The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering; greatest need or peril; extreme need; necessity.
Divers evils and extremities that follow upon such a compulsion shall here be set in view.
Upon mere extremity he summoned this last Parliament.