instrumentality
noun/ˌɪnstɹʊmɛnˈtælɪti/US
Etymology
From instrumental + -ity.
- derived from īnstrūmentālis
- inherited from instrumental
Definitions
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.
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.
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