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
Even now Ralph could see his lips moving in the instancy of his unuttered supplication.
From The Lilac Sunbonnet by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Our hearts beat, and in the instancy of our watch we would not have turned our heads if the proviseur himself had been at our side.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
At the same moment the lawyer, thus relieved of the instancy of his fear, changed his tactics.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
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