Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/ˈɪnstəns/ · noun
(obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence..
I know one very well alied, to whom, at the instance of a brother of his[…], I spake to that purpose[…].
[…]undertook at her instance to restore them.
It was settled, as long ago as the first Congress, at the instance of Madison, then in the Senate, and by the deciding vote of John Adams, then Vice-President, that even where the advice and consent of the Senate was necessary to the appointment of an officer, the President had the absolute power to remove him without consulting the Senate.
It sends some precious instance of itself/ After the thing it loves.
The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
The reason that I gather he is mad, Besides this present instance of his rage, Is a mad tale he told to day at dinner […]
The Statutes, or Acts of Parliament themſelves. Theſe ſeem, as if in the Time of Edw[ard] I. they were drawn up into the Form of a Law in the firſt Inſtance, and ſo aſſented to by both Houſes, and the King, as may appear by the very Obſervation of the Contexture and Fabrick of the Statutes of thoſe Times.
August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet most remarkable instances of suffering
Use instance when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Instance means (obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence..
Common synonyms include case, exemplify, illustrate, representative.
Possible antonyms include noninstance.
I know one very well alied, to whom, at the instance of a brother of his[…], I spake to that purpose[…].
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.