instrumentality

noun
/ˌɪnstɹʊmɛnˈtælɪti/US

Etymology

From instrumental + -ity.

  1. derived from īnstrūmentālis
  2. inherited from instrumental
  3. suffixed as instrumentality — “instrumental + ity

Definitions

  1. The condition or quality of being instrumental

    The condition or quality of being instrumental; being useful; serving a purpose.

    • In a later vision the Saviour revealed to her in detail the 'great design' which he wished to establish through her instrumentality.
  2. Something that is instrumental

    Something that is instrumental; an instrument.

    • He spoke of the various instrumentalities which were now employed for the conversion of the world.
    • Delays and failures will only set her to casting about for new instrumentalities.
    • God works by instrumentalities, and he has wonderfully thus far interposed in keeping evils that I feared in abeyance.
  3. A governmental organ with a specific purpose.

    • Any work in which the copyright was ever owned or administered by the Alien Property Custodian and in which the restored copyright would be owned by a government or instrumentality thereof, is not a restored work.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for instrumentality. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA