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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the quickness of action or occurrence;
- Example: "the immediacy of their response"
- Example: "the instancy of modern communication"
[syn: immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness, instancy]

2. the quality of being insistent;
- Example: "he pressed his demand with considerable instancy"
[syn: imperativeness, instancy]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Instancy \In"stan*cy\, n.
   Instance; urgency. [Obs.]
   [1913 Webster]

         Those heavenly precepts which our Lord and Savior with
         so great instancy gave.                  --Hooker.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

instancy
    n 1: the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of
         their response"; "the instancy of modern communication"
         [syn: immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness,
         instancy]
    2: the quality of being insistent; "he pressed his demand with
       considerable instancy" [syn: imperativeness, instancy]