instance

[in·stance]

An instance is a specific example or case of something. One instance of being chased by a growling dog can make a person spend his whole life being afraid of animals.

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

Noun
an item of information that is representative of a type; "this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"; "there is an example on page 10"

Noun
an occurrence of something; "it was a case of bad judgment"; "another instance occurred yesterday"; "but there is always the famous example of the Smiths"

Verb
clarify by giving an example of


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

n.
That which is instant or urgent; motive.

n.
Occasion; order of occurrence.

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

n.
A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.

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

v. i.
To give an example.


Instance

In"stance , n. [F. instance, L. instantia, fr. instans. See Instant.] 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.
Most remarkable instances of suffering.
5. A token; a sign; a symptom or indication. Shak. Causes of instance, those which proceed at the solicitation of some party. Hallifax. -- Court of first instance, the court by which a case is first tried. -- For instance, by way of example or illustration. -- Instance Court (Law), the Court of Admiralty acting within its ordinary jurisdiction, as distinguished from its action as a prize court. Syn. -- Example; case. See Example.

Instance

In"stance , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Instanced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Instancing .] To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite; as, to instance a fact. H. Spenser.
I shall not instance an abstruse author.

Instance

In"stance, v. i. To give an example. [Obs.]
This story doth not only instance in kingdoms, but in families too.

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

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

To give an example.

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Usage Examples

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.

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

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

There aren't as many girl superheroes, but there are cool ones. Banshee, for instance.

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.

I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.

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Other Usage Examples

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.

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.

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

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.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.

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

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