Definition of Instance

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Instance

The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.

That which is instant or urgent; motive.

Occasion; order of occurrence.

That which offers itself or is offered as an illustrative case; something cited in proof or exemplification; a case occurring; an example.

A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.

To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite; as, to instance a fact.

To give an example.

Related Definitions:

Act, An, Application, As, Being, Case, Cite, Cited, Example, Exemplification, Fact, Give, Illustrative, In, Indication, Instance, Instant, Is, Itself, Mention, Motion, Motive, Occasion, Occurrence, Occurring, Of, Offered, Or, Order, Pressing, Proof, Quality, Refer, Sign, Something, Suggestion, Symptom, That, The, To, Token, Urgency, Urgent, Which

Instance Quotations

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
Friedrich Nietzsche

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
Sun Tzu

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
Hunter S. Thompson

In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
James Madison

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.
Woody Allen

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
Samuel Adams

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
Emma Goldman

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin

One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off.
Lawrence Halprin

Instance Translations

instance in German is Beispiel, Vorgang, Beispiel, Gelegenheit, Instanz
instance in Latin is nam
instance in Norwegian is eksempel
instance in Spanish is ejemplar
instance in Swedish is exempel

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