reagency

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For, on further consideration, it is not Cicero only, or Epictetus only, that would suffer under this law of Christianity viewed in its reagency, but also Abraham, David, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Hezekiah.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

The combined reagency of these relatives has given us what we have from no other English poet—for the simple reason that no other English poet has had such a chance of giving it to us.

From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by Saintsbury, George

Will is the sum of physical forces necessary for self-preservation, is reagency against the formidable rivalry of every other organization.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various