Noun
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.
Source: Webster's dictionarySo great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar. Matthew Henry
In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven. Walter Scott
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
Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer. H. Beam Piper
We are so close to the world of work that we can't see what it does to us. We have to rely on outside observers from other times or other cultures to appreciate the extremity and the pathology of our present position. Bob Black
In the sanguinary struggle with capitalism, the working class cannot refrain from inflicting the last extremity of punishment upon its declared enemies. While the civil war continues, the abolition of the death penalty is impossible. Nikolai Bukharin