instance
noun
a case or occurrence of anything.
instancing
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present participleof instance.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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The following remark of his is worth instancing.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Herbert Baldwin Foster
That the highest intellects had been formed on Bible models she denied by instancing Shelley.
From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies
And after instancing a number of these stories "which deserve the gravest condemnation," he enjoins that God must be represented as he is in reality.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
I cannot forbear instancing a few of these, because it may be of some use to those who shall have it in their power to be more cautious for the future.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish by Temple Scott
Hazlitt stated that there were some prose works that approached poetry without absolutely being poetry, instancing Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim's Progress, and the Decameron.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell
