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Meaning of Instrumentality | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2
ˌɪnstɹʊmɛnˈtælɪti

Definitions

  1. The condition or quality of being instrumental; being useful; serving a purpose.
  2. Something that is instrumental; an instrument.
  3. A governmental organ with a specific purpose.

Equivalents

Examples

“In a later vision the Saviour revealed to her in detail the 'great design' which he wished to establish through her instrumentality.”
“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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