instancy
Americannoun
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the quality of being urgent or imminent
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instantaneousness; immediateness
Etymology
Origin of instancy
From the Latin word instantia, dating back to 1505–15. See instance, -ancy
Example Sentences
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They have about them the brilliance or instancy of their moment but also the cello sound of loss that life makes when going irrecoverably away and lodging at last in the dreamworks.
From Time Magazine Archive
But with unhurrying chase, And unperturb�d pace, Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, They beat�and a Voice beat More instant than the Feet�'All things betray thee, who betrayest Me' .
From Time Magazine Archive
With deliberate speed�though the summer holidays approach�with majestic instancy, nine remote men make answer in thousands of decisions, mostly technical and dull.
From Time Magazine Archive
Plenty of open air, 347 plenty of physical exertion, a continual instancy of toil—here was what had been hitherto lacking in that misdirected life, and the true cure of vital scepticism.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
As he went he looked upward often in self-communion, and sometimes groaned aloud in the instancy of his unspoken prayer.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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