instancy

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With deliberate speed�though the summer holidays approach�with majestic instancy, nine remote men make answer in thousands of decisions, mostly technical and dull.

From Time Magazine Archive

They have about them the brilliance or instancy of their moment but also the cello sound of loss that life makes when going irrecoverably away and lodging at last in the dreamworks.

From Time Magazine Archive

But with unhurrying chase, And unperturb�d pace, Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, They beat�and a Voice beat More instant than the Feet�'All things betray thee, who betrayest Me' .

From Time Magazine Archive

Still with unhurrying chase, And unperturbed pace, Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, Came on the following Feet, And a Voice above their beat - "Naught shelters thee, who wilt not shelter Me."

From Poems by Thompson, Francis

The speed there is terrific, so fast that it hardens, again that "majestic instancy."

From The Forgotten Threshold by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)