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 Francis Thompson
The speed there is terrific, so fast that it hardens, again that "majestic instancy."
From The Forgotten Threshold by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
The love of man, far more the love of God, is God in heaven descended upon earth, eternity made time in beauty, "majestic instancy," the Word made Flesh.
From The Forgotten Threshold by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
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 Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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