instrumentality
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From instrumental + -ity.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˌɪnstɹʊmɛnˈtælɪti/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ælɪti
- Hyphenation: in‧stru‧ment‧al‧i‧ty
Noun[edit]
instrumentality (countable and uncountable, plural instrumentalities)
- (uncountable) The condition or quality of being instrumental; being useful; serving a purpose.
- 1902, William James, “Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 344:
- In a later vision the Saviour revealed to her in detail the 'great design' which he wished to establish through her instrumentality.
- (countable) Something that is instrumental; an instrument.
- 1838, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4[1]:
- He spoke of the various instrumentalities which were now employed for the conversion of the world.
- 1873, Helen Hunt Jackson, Bits About Home Matters[2]:
- Delays and failures will only set her to casting about for new instrumentalities.
- 1914, Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals[3]:
- God works by instrumentalities, and he has wonderfully thus far interposed in keeping evils that I feared in abeyance.
- (countable, law) A governmental organ with a specific purpose.
- 1994, Title 17 of the United States Code, §104A(a)(2):
- 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.
Translations[edit]
quality or condition of being instrumental
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governmental organ
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something that is instrumental; an instrument
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instrumentality of crime (criminal asset)
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