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instancy|ˈɪnstənsɪ|
[ad. L. instāntia: cf. instance n., and see -ancy.]
1. The quality of being instant; urgency, earnestness, solicitation; pressure, pressing nature.
1515Plumpton Corr. 212, I besech you..to take the payne upon you to make such labor unto Sir John Roclife, that he will, at your instauncie..make a release of that land in Combrig. 1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. i. x. §14 Those heauenly precepts, which our Lord and Sauiour with so great instancie gaue as concerning peace and vnitie. 1665R. B. Comm. 2 Tales 197 The Autor, upon the instancy of sundry Persons of Quality, had finish'd his Comments. 1841Trench Parables, Mar. King's Son (1860) 219 The king..told his servants..to press the message with greater distinctness and instancy. a1894Stevenson St. Ives xix. (1898) 142 Relieved of the instancy of his fear.
2. The quality of being close at hand; imminence; immediate approach. rare.
1658Phillips, Instancy, a being near at hand. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) I. xxx. 601 The supposition that he had spoken of the actual instancy of the day of the Lord.
3. Immediateness, instantaneity. rare.
1851J. Cumming Lect. Mirac. (1854) I. 38 The evidence..was in the speed and instancy of a process which it usually takes months, or a year, to achieve. 1853E. S. Sheppard Ch. Auchester II. 54 What riveted the resemblance most was the instancy of their sympathetic communion.
†4. = instance n. 6. Obs. rare.
1613Jackson Creed ii. xxi. §7 [That] wee should giue particular instancies of such Martyrs. |