Lexicographical Neighbors of Instantness
Literary usage of Instantness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1850)
"... hitherto, has been that his interest in literary subjects has been so irritable,
and his energy sprang with such instantness to seize every scheme which ..."
2. Literary Criticisms and Other Papers by Horace Binney Wallace (1856)
"... hitherto, has been that his interest in literary subjects has been so irritable,
and his energy sprang with such instantness to seize every scheme which ..."
3. The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine (1864)
"... fearlessness to probe the gross and peccant humours of the heart, to check
with incisive instantness the spread of vileness, to neutralize contagion, ..."
4. The Gospel standard, or Feeble Christian's support (1866)
"... after Christ than before, as here the church does: for her eagerness, constancy,
and instantness, it grows as Christ's withdrawing of himself grows. ..."
5. Holy God, Holy People: Take Time to Be Holy, the World Rushes on by Hugh D Morgan (2007)
"... reason for giving attention to this subject is the fact that Christians have
become impatient, and are now conditioned by the 'instantness' of certain ..."
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