instance
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Borrowed from Middle French instance, from Latin īnstantia (“a being near, presence, also perseverance, earnestness, importunity, urgency”), from īnstāns (“urgent”); see instant.
instance (countable and uncountable, plural instances)
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instance (third-person singular simple present instances, present participle instancing, simple past and past participle instanced)
Learned borrowing from Latin īnstantia.
instance f (plural instances)
A derivative of etymology 1, but reborrowed from English.
instance f (plural instances)
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