instance
noun
a case or occurrence of anything.
will instance
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future tenseof instance.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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I will instance but in two particulars: In that very place he saith, “Admonition is a spiritual censure in the Commissioner's opinion.”
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
You will instance to me discord in the family.
From The Poison Tree A Tale of Hindu Life in Bengal by Miriam S. Knight
I will instance three subjects of universal importance.
From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by John Ruskin
Some will instance France; but the Parisians alone, and a fanatical faction of them, maintained for a short time the absurd dogma of theophilanthropy.
From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Sir Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry) Jerningham
Charles, indeed, who was preaching when I entered, can't read; but both have far too much reverence to use sacred words in their games, as the sermons themselves will instance.
From The Vicar's Daughter by George MacDonald
