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n. An example that is cited to prove or invalidate a contention or illustrate a point. See Synonyms at example.

n. A case or an occurrence: In all such instances, let conscience be your guide.

n. Law A legal proceeding or process; a suit.

n. A step in a process or series of events: You should apply in the first instance to the personnel manager.

n. A suggestion or request: called at the instance of his attorney.

n. Archaic Urgent solicitation.

n. Obsolete An impelling motive.

v. To offer as an example; cite.

v. To demonstrate or show by an example; exemplify.

idiom. for instance As an example; for example.

n. One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.

n. A dungeon or other area that is duplicated for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players.

n. An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.

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

v. To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.

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

verb-intransitive. To give an example.

n. Presence; present time.

n. A happening or occurring; occurrence; occasion: as, it was correct in the first instance; a court of first instance (that is, of primary jurisdiction).

n. A case occurring; a case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an example; originally, a case offered to disprove a universal assertion: as, this has happened in three instances.

n. Hence Evidence; proof; token.

n. An impelling motive; influence; cause.

n. The process of a suit.

n. In Scots law, that which may be insisted on at one diet or course of probation.

n. The act or state of being instant or urgent; insistence; solicitation; urgency.

To cite as an instance; adduce in illustration or confirmation; mention as an example.

To furnish an instance or example of; exemplify; manifest.

To take or receive example or examples; give or find illustration: followed by in.

v. clarify by giving an example of

n. an occurrence of something

n. an item of information that is typical of a class or group

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instanced    instances    instancing   

expatiate    expound    lucubrate    enlarge    exposit    elaborate    dilate    expand    flesh out   

instance side of the court    court of first instance    at the instance of    instance court    for instance    causes of instance    closure    class    object   

instanced    instancing   

case    example    urgency    solicitation    application    suggestion    motion    motive    occasion    token   

example    consequence    evidence    degree    account    sign    fact    act    five    minute