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instancy

Noun

in=stan=cy

WORDNET DICTIONARY

instancy(n = noun.attribute) immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness - the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication"

is a kind of celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness

Derived form adjective instant₁

instancy(n = noun.attribute) imperativeness - the quality of being insistent; "he pressed his demand with considerable instancy"

is a kind of urgency

Derived form adjective instant₃

instancy, n.

Instance; urgency. [1913 Webster]

"Those heavenly precepts which our Lord and Savior with so great instancy gave." [1913 Webster]

instancy, n.
1 urgency.
2 pressing nature.

Etymology

L instantia: see INSTANCE

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