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
Nigh and nigh draws the chase, With unperturbed pace, Deliberate speed majestic instancy And past those noised Feet A voice comes yet more fleet - "Lo! naught contents thee, who content'st not Me."
From Poems by Thompson, Francis
But with unhurrying chase, And unperturbed pace, Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, They beat—and a Voice beat More instant than the Feet - "All things betray thee, who betrayest Me."
From Poems by Thompson, Francis
He declared that he gave in to their instancy, and dismissed them still grieving, and bearing on their cheeks the signs of sorrow.
From Barlaam and Ioasaph by John of Damascus, Saint
He was robed in white like any spectre, and the hood falling back, in the instancy of his contention with the barrow, disclosed a pate as bald and yellow as a skull.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew
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