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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 2563 To receive Bothe in substance and in figure Of gold and selver the nature.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. x. sig. f8 Wyth the watre of this fontayne is the bame watred, and of this water may not be employed ne born in to other place, ffor in substaunce it doth nomore than other water.

1548 R. Crowley Confut. Mishapen Aunswer sig. A.iv^v Other wise then the cup was the newe testament or couenaunt established by hys bloude shed on the crosse, that is to saye in significacion and not in substaunce.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 775 Hee the future evil shall no less In apprehension then in substance feel Grievous to bear. View more context for this quotation

1797 E. Burke Remarks Policy Allies in Three Memorials on French Affairs 174 We know that the Monarchy did not survive the Hierarchy, no not even in appearance, for many months; in substance, not for a single hour.

a1868 C. Harpur Poet. Wks. (1984) 106 Not in seeming, but in substance free, To God, as monarch, only bend the knee.

1989 G. Steiner Real Presences i. vi. 27 Originality is antithetical to novelty. The etymology of the word alerts us. It tells of ‘inception’ and of ‘instauration’, of a return, in substance and in form, to beginnings.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 976 (MED) Of þe charge þat he on hym leyde..Þis was þe somme pleinly, in substaunce.

1447 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Feb. 1447 §11. m. 5 In whos kepyng the bokes, sureteez and godes in substaunce holy remaigne.

c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) l. 645 In especial ther be tweyne [weyes], And thou mayst chese[n], in substaunce, Whiche ys most to thy plesaunce.

a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 5881 Yt behoueth in sentence, That the fulfyllyng in substaunce To the fulle haue suffysaunce.

a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) l. 1968 Now haue I here rehersid in substaunce xv kynges, As shortly as I myght, With ther powre and All ther hoole puysaunce.

a1450–1500 ( Libel Eng. Policy (1926) 122 By draperinge of oure wolle, in substaunce, Lyvene here comons; this is here governaunce.

1474–5 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 3rd Roll §43. m. 10 The which forseid .x.^th part, and .xv.^e and .x.^e..been in substaunce levied and paied.

a1500 ( Bale's Chron. in R. Flenley Six Town Chron. (1911) 119 And the hertes of the comones in substaunce wer w^t þe Erle: And a geinst the seid priour.

1460 G. Sperlyng in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 202 I seid nout but þat I wole abyde by, which was this in substaunce.

1491–2 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1491 §15. m. 7 All whiche matiers afore rehercid is by the seid John Hayes in substaunce confessed and knowleged.

1581 in D. Digges Compl. Ambassador (1655) 440 She used in substance the like speeches the King had done.

1601 Bp. W. Barlow Serm. Paules Crosse Martij 1600 (title page) Whereunto is annexed a true copie, in substance, of the behauiour, speache, and prayer of the said Earle at the time of his execution.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 106 The Religion of the Persians is in substance the same with that of the Turks.

1737 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 662/1 To this it was replied in Substance as follows.

1821 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 344 I may misremember indifferent circumstances, but can be right in substance.

1857 J. Keble On Eucharistical Adoration ii. 26 Whitgift..adds, in substance, the same account of it.

1908 Progr. Modernism 118 These are, in substance, our ideas upon the origin of religion.

1999 Courier Mail (Queensland) 24 May 15 His position on east Jerusalem was no different in substance from that of his defeated right-wing predecessor.

1614 W. Barclay Nepenthes sig. A7 Tabacco purgeth by slauer onelie, being taken in the mouth in substance or in smoake.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. ii. iii. 102 Theophrastus speakes of a Shepheard that could eat Hellebor in substance.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. i. iv. ii. 303 A friend..would needs take Hellebor in substance.

1685 R. Boyle Reconcileableness Spec. Med. to Corpusc. Philos. 142 Some..would without scruple, take several Grains of Crude Antimony in substance.

1737 Med. Ess. & Observ. (ed. 2) II. vi. 48 Steel Spaws are every where so frequent in this Part of Scotland where I live, that to imagine them impregnated with Iron in Substance, were to conceive the whole Country in one Mine.

1853 J. W. Comfort Pract. Med. (ed. 4) 527 Peruvian bark is most active when taken in substance.

1649 J. Milton Tenure of Kings 4 When the Common wealth nigh perishes for want of deeds in substance, don with just and faithfull expedition.

1737 London Mag. Mar. 116/1 It is very unsafe for a King to allow one Man, or one Family, to ingross too much..; for by so doing he generally transfers the Royalty in Substance.

1834 H. Taylor Philip van Artevelde i. i. ii Think well What you should say; for if it must be ‘no’ In substance, you shall hardly find that form Which shall convey it pleasantly.

a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iv. l. 394 Ther was oon..Callid Camyllus, a lord of gret substaunce.

1495–6 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1907) IV. 211 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 3218) LXIV. 1 Suche inhabitantes of grete substans.

?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 50 That syre of substance.

a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 435 The Comien Counceill of þe Cite & other persones of substaunce.

1553 T. Paynell tr. St. Augustine 12 Serm. ix. sig. G.viij Many..marye wemen of more nobilitie and substance, then they themselues be.

1600 H. Roberts Haigh for Deuonshire To Rdr. sig. A4 There was dwelling neer, and in the renowned City of Exeter, Totnes, Plymouth, Barnestable, and Tyuerton, many [merchants] of great substance.

1681 in Pennsylvania Arch. (1852) I. 38 Men of substance and reputation.

1716 W. Hawkins Treat. Pleas Crown I. xlii. 109 The marrying a Woman of Substance by Force, and other Offences of the like Nature, were made Felonies by 3 H7. 2.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vii. x. 127 I had provided her a proper Match, a sober Man, and one of Substance . View more context for this quotation

1840 W. M. Thackeray Catherine xxii Hayes's father was reported to be a man of some substance.

1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. i. 2 My father being of good substance, at least as we reckon in Exmoor.

1882 Harper's Mag. Mar. 550/1 The administrator..has..various lands and casitas of his own—a person of substance, in fact.

1934 Times 3 Oct. 5/6 Wilson was represented as a man of considerable substance, with a suite at the Ritz Hotel.

1969 N.Y. Mag. 29 Sept. 29/3 The stylish woman of substance seemed relieved that she had been accepted.

2002 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 14 Nov. 5 He was a man of substance but never one for flashing his wealth around.

a1456 Ld. Cromwell in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 110 There is a greet straungenesse betwix my right trusty frend John Radcliff and you, withoute any matier or cause of substaunce, as I am lerned.

1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) iv. xxxiii. f. lxxxii The hygher that he is sette in estate, the more shold his wordes be of substaunce and moost of reputacion.

1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Aiii Tryfelous thynges y^t were lytell to be regarded she wolde let passe by, but the other y^t were of weyght & substaunce [etc.].

1602 R. Parsons Manifestation Great Folly iii. f. 36 What one thing of substance do they alleadge against, the sayed father, yf we set aparte, slaunders, scoffes and contumelious speaches?

1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico vi. 22 In all these Punctualityes and curious Accommodations for his March, there was nothing of substance, all meerly Show and Colour.

1700 J. Adams Ess. conc. Self-murther xiii. 228 Glory..is something of substance, like solid Imagery, not the slight shadowing of fading Colours.

1779 Town & Country Mag. Jan. 38/2 He appears to have been more tenacious in points of form, than in matters of substance.

1843 O. L. Barbour Treat. Pract. Court of Chancery I. iii. iv. 603 Affidavits ought to be fairly and legibly written, in one hand, without blots or interlineations of any words of substance.

1925 Times 7 Dec. 11/1 Majority and minority reports were made differing on various points of considerable substance.

2004 J. Fellowes Snobs (2005) xviii. 276 We kissed and chatted and ordered, knowing as we did so that there was a conversation of some substance to come, but by mutual consent we waited until our first courses.

?c1500 Mary Magdalene (Digby) l. 574 I haue ordeynnyd a dyner of substawns, My chyff freyndes þerwith to chyr.