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instrumentalities

instrumentalities is the plural of instrumentality.

Meaning of instrumentality

Noun

instrumentality (countable and uncountable, plural instrumentalities)

  1. (uncountable) 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.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. […]...
  2. (countable) Something that is instrumental; an instrument.
    • He spoke of the various instrumentalities which were now employed for the conversion of the world.1838, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4
  3. (countable) 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.1994, Title 17 of the United States Code, §104A(a)(2)
  4. The property of being in the instrumental case.

Questions about instrumentalities

What is instrumentalities the plural of?
Instrumentalities is the plural of instrumentality.

Words near instrumentalities in the dictionary

  1. instrumentalising
  2. instrumentalism
  3. instrumentalisms
  4. instrumentalist
  5. instrumentalists
  6. instrumentalities
  7. instrumentality
  8. instrumentalization
  9. instrumentalizations
  10. instrumentalize
  11. instrumentalized

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