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Instrumentality   /ˌɪnstrəmɛntˈælɪti/   Listen
Instrumentality

noun
(pl. instrumentalities)
1.
A subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose.  "He studied the French instrumentalities for law enforcement"
2.
The quality of being instrumental for some purpose.
3.
An artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end.  Synonym: instrumentation.





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"Instrumentality" Quotes from Famous Books



... we not do what in us lies towards the ultimate improvement and final conclusion of the great work which has been thus prosperous in our hands, professing, in pure humility and singleness of heart, that we do not, in any way, deserve our instrumentality to be remembered, nay, would rather pray and entreat, that our name and fortunes were forgotten, than that the great work were in itself incomplete. Nevertheless, truly, placed as we now are, it concerns us more nearly than others,—that is, if so poor ...
— Woodstock; or, The Cavalier • Sir Walter Scott
 
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... asked you to do at first what I must ask you to do at last. If you decline to sell the place, or let it unfurnished, on a long lease, to some one willing to take it, spite of its bad character, I must say the house will never again be let through my instrumentality, and I must beg you to advertise River Hall yourself, or place it in the hands ...
— The Uninhabited House • Mrs. J. H. Riddell
 
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... anxious to hold any conversation with him on the subject in question. Such, indeed, was the case. Mr. Furnival was determined to pull Lady Mason out of the sea of trouble into which she had fallen, let the effort cost him what it might, but he did not wish to do so by the instrumentality, or even with ...
— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope
 
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... United States and the Canadas, were not only affected by it, but a "Party" of three had already been chosen and appointed to supersede us! Even without any knowledge on my part, claims were made in England in behalf of the "Niger Valley Exploring Party," solely through the instrumentality of ...
— Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party • Martin Robinson Delany
 
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... strict propriety be asserted, that the influence of thorough instruction in the sound and sacred truths of God's word is inestimable upon the intellect as well as on the heart. Divine truth is the grand educator of the immortal mind. It is therefore an instrumentality to be used in childhood and youth, as well as ...
— Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters - Volume 3 • Various
 
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