instancy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the quickness of action or occurrence
    immediacy; immediateness; instantaneousness.
    • the immediacy of their response
    • the instancy of modern communication
  2. noun the quality of being insistent
    imperativeness.
    • he pressed his demand with considerable instancy

WordNet


In"stan*cy noun
Definitions
  1. Instance; urgency. Obs.
    Those heavenly precepts which our Lord and Savior with so great instancy gave. Hooker.

Webster 1913