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Meanings of instancy in English

Catalan
insistència
Spanish
insistencia

The quality of being insistent.

        insistència

        The quickness of action or occurrence.

              Usage of instancy in English
              1
              The devotee's irrationality springs from a thousand inexplicable demonstrations of God's instancy in trouble.
              Autobiography of a Yogi
              2
              Even now Ralph could see his lips moving in the instancy of his unuttered supplication.
              The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story
              3
              The hidden rifle with deliberate instancy cracked once more.
              Laramie Holds the Range
              4
              With majestic instancy they beat.
              Future Lovecraft
              5
              As he went he looked upward often in self-communion, and sometimes groaned aloud in the instancy of his unspoken prayer.
              Bog-Myrtle and Peat / Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from th...
              6
              Ralph Peden, who had taken a step forward in the instancy of his appeal, came to himself again in a moment.
              The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story
              7
              He declared that he gave in to their instancy, and dismissed them still grieving, and bearing on their cheeks the signs of sorrow.
              Barlaam and Ioasaph
              Translations for instancy
              Instancy through the time