instancy
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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 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 Stevenson, Robert Louis
The peace was made by the instancy of the ffather Jesuits.
From Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson by Radisson, Pierre Esprit
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 Word made Flesh.
From The Forgotten Threshold by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
But what riveted the resemblance most was the instancy of their sympathetic communion.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth
