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noun

Instance n.

1.

The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion. "Undertook at her instance to restore them."

2.

That which is instant or urgent; motive. (Obs.) "The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love."

3.

Occasion; order of occurrence. "These seem as if, in the time of Edward I., they were drawn up into the form of a law, in the first instance."

4.

That which offers itself or is offered as an illustrative case; something cited in proof or exemplification; a case occurring; an example; as, we could find no instance of poisoning in the town within the past year. "Most remarkable instances of suffering."

5.

A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.

Causes of instance, those which proceed at the solicitation of some party.

Court of first instance, the court by which a case is first tried.

For instance, by way of example or illustration; for example.

Instance Court (Law), the Court of Admiralty acting within its ordinary jurisdiction, as distinguished from its action as a prize court.

Synonyms: Example; case. See Example.

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Etymology of 'For instance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"For instance" Quotes from Famous Books

... acknowledging that there is some reality corresponding to the conception, yet define this reality as essentially different from it. Moreover, the acknowledgment of a certain group of gods (the celestial bodies, for instance) combined with the rejection of others, may create difficulties in defining the notion of atheism; in practice, however, this doctrine generally coincides with the former, by which the gods are explained away. On the ...

— Atheism in Pagan Antiquity • A. B. Drachmann

... in their errors?" said the Doctor. "Suppose, for instance, you saw some one—some friend—believing in a person whom you knew to be unworthy, would you make no effort ...

— Bella Donna - A Novel • Robert Hichens

... thin hand, with a letter in it, which represented her only excuse. Mrs. Westerfield read the letter, and crumpled it up in her pocket. "One of your secrets?" James asked. "Anything about the diamonds, for instance?" ...

— The Evil Genius • Wilkie Collins

... others, are exposed to that fury, and the reason is very simple: ordinary life is the limpid surface; the debauchees, the rapid current turning over and over, and, at times, touching the bottom. Coming from a ball, for instance, where they have danced with a modest girl, they seek the company of bad characters, and spend the night in riotous feasting. The last words they addressed to a beautiful and virtuous woman are still on their lips; they repeat them and burst into laughter. Shall I say it? Do they not raise, for some ...

— The Confession of a Child of The Century • Alfred de Musset

... have been in the affected style of the early part of the last century twisting the sense to give what was thought to be a romantic turn. A verse of Seaghan Clarach's, for instance, the lament of a farmer 'who has been wrestling with the world': 'The two that belong to me are without shelter, and my yoke of cattle without grass, without growth; there is misery on my people and their elbows without sound ...

— Poets and Dreamers - Studies and translations from the Irish • Lady Augusta Gregory and Others

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