Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The quality or condition of being insistent; urgency.
- n. Immediacy of occurrence; instantaneousness.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Instance; insistency.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Instance; urgency.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of being insistent
- n. the quickness of action or occurrence
Examples
“The painting has an instancy that he finds striking.”
“How Thompson's line, "Deliberate speed, majestic instancy," came to dominate one of the defining moments in American constitutional law represents a unique instance of not law-in-literature or law-as-literature, but literature-as-law.”
“Even in our time, in the sightlines of living history, in the retrieved instancy of film and videotape, there are stories waiting to be finished, open to the thrust of reasoned analysis and haunted speculation.”
“Water as it is in nature, and the child (that once was me) wading there in butterburrs; and wonder at the instancy and virgin freshness of that memory; and be pricked again, in season and out of season, by the desire to weave it into art.”
“Cappadociaes request; soliciting him with all instancy, to be the more speedy in assayling Osbech.”
“The devotee's irrationality springs from a thousand inexplicable demonstrations of God's instancy in trouble.”
“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”
“The speed there is terrific, so fast that it hardens, again that "majestic instancy.”
“Sheila's pathetic incredulity, his old vicar's laborious kindness, the tiresome network of experience into which he would be dragged struggling on the morrow, and on the morrow after that, and after that -- the thought of all these things faded for the moment from his mind, lost if not their significance, at least their instancy.”
“The marvellous love-poetry of mysticism, the rhapsodies which extol the spirit's Lover, Friend, Companion, Bridegroom; which describe the "deliberate speed, majestic instancy" of the Hound of”
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