instancy
Example Sentences
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They have about them the brilliance or instancy of their moment but also the cello sound of loss that life makes when going irrecoverably away and lodging at last in the dreamworks.
From Time Magazine Archive
He declared that he gave in to their instancy, and dismissed them still grieving, and bearing on their cheeks the signs of sorrow.
From Barlaam and Ioasaph by Saint John of Damascus
The speed there is terrific, so fast that it hardens, again that "majestic instancy."
From The Forgotten Threshold by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
He was robed in white like any spectre, and the hood falling back, in the instancy of his contention with the barrow, disclosed a pate as bald and yellow as a skull.
From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
But what riveted the resemblance most was the instancy of their sympathetic communion.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Elizabeth Sheppard
