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countable and uncountable, plural instrumentalities
(uncountable) The quality or condition of being instrumental; serving a purpose, being useful. quotations examples
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, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society, published 2008, page 294
(countable, law) A governmental organ with a specific purpose. quotations examples
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)
(countable) Something that is instrumental; an instrument. quotations examples
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