English Dictionary

instance

/ˈɪnstəns/

noun

(obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence. / (obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication. / (obsolete) That which is urgent; motive.

He spoke with great instance.

意味（1）

(obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.

I know one very well alied, to whom, at the instance of a brother of his[…], I spake to that purpose[…].

意味（2）

(obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.

It sends some precious instance of itself/ After the thing it loves.

意味（3）

(obsolete) That which is urgent; motive.

The instances that second marriage move

The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

意味（4）

(obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).

The reason that I gather he is mad, Besides this present instance of his rage, Is a mad tale he told to day at dinner […]

意味（5）

Occasion; order of occurrence.

The Statutes, or Acts of Parliament themſelves. Theſe ſeem, as if in the Time of Edw[ard] I. they were drawn up into the Form of a Law in the firſt Inſtance, and ſo aſſented to by both Houſes, and the King, as may appear by the very Obſervation of the Contexture and Fabrick of the Statutes of thoſe Times.

意味（6）

A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.

most remarkable instances of suffering

意味（7）

One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.

One's own death is an 'accidental' event, simply another instance of the general rule that human beings die.

意味（8）

(computing) A specific occurrence of something that is created or instantiated, such as a database, or an object of a class in object-oriented programming.

Some compilers will allow statics to be inlined, but then incorrectly create multiple instances of the inlined variable at run-time.

意味（9）

(massively multiplayer online games) A dungeon or other area that is duplicated for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players.

As long as the most difficult instance you've tried is Gnomeregan, you're never going to be credible talking about 'difficult encounters'.

意味（10）

(massively multiplayer online games) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.

The instance is created for the group that enters it.