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Instancy   Listen
noun
Instancy  n.  Instance; urgency. (Obs.) "Those heavenly precepts which our Lord and Savior with so great instancy gave."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Instancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... educational dilemma was plainly a matter for the Infinite Ingenuity. This was my reasoning, though to many it seems illogic. The devotee's irrationality springs from a thousand inexplicable demonstrations of God's instancy in trouble. ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda

... elders that bordered on the stream. And it was this strip of causeway that enjoyed among the young parishioners of Balweary so infamous a reputation. The minister walked there often after dark, sometimes groaning aloud in the instancy of his unspoken prayers; and when he was from home, and the manse door was locked, the more daring school-boys ventured, with beating hearts, to "follow my leader" ...
— Stories by English Authors: Scotland • Various



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