Associations to the word «Instancy»

Wiktionary

INSTANCY, noun. Insistence, insistency
INSTANCY, noun. Immediacy, instantaneousness

Dictionary definition

INSTANCY, noun. The quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication".
INSTANCY, noun. The quality of being insistent; "he pressed his demand with considerable instancy".

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke