instrumentality

CEFRC2

/ˌɪnstɹʊmɛnˈtælɪti/

noun

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The problem about "the instrumentality of mankind" is being looked into by the committee.
He spoke of the various instrumentalities which were now employed for the conversion of the world.

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Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

Something that is instrumental; an instrument.
The condition or quality of being instrumental; being useful; serving a purpose.

In context

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

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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, Gre...
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
Delays and failures will only set her to casting about for new instrumentalities.
1873, Helen Hunt Jackson, Bits About Home Matters
God works by instrumentalities, and he has wonderfully thus far interposed in keeping evils that I feared in abeyance.
1914, Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals
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)

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From instrumental + -ity.