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adverb

Instead adv.

In the place or room; usually followed by of. "Let thistles grow of wheat." "Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab."

Equivalent; equal to; usually with of. (R.) "This very consideration to a wise man is instead of a thousand arguments, to satisfy him, that in those times no such thing was believed."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Instead" Quotes from Famous Books

... sufficient number of saddle-horses, if they might be so called, he having forgot to cause saddles to be brought with them for Whitelocke's people, so that most of them were forced to make shift with straw and cushions instead of saddles; and many of the bits and stirrups were such as they had been acquainted with in their journey from Gothenburg hither; and thus they ...

— A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. • Bulstrode Whitelocke

... was opened almost immediately by a fat hall porter who scowled when he saw a girl instead of the footman of a ...

— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce

... to be laughed at. He felt that Handicap Lodge was no place for him; and besides, why should he bear Dot's disagreeable sarcasms? It was not the part of a real friend to say such cutting things as he continually did. After all, Lord Cashel would be a safer friend, or, at any rate, adviser; and, instead of trying to defeat him by coolness or insolence, he would at once tell him of all his intentions, explain to him exactly how matters stood, and prove his good resolutions by offering to take whatever steps the earl might recommend about the horses. This final determination made him ...

— The Kellys and the O'Kellys • Anthony Trollope

... sympathetically. For the fanatic is one of the hinges which swing the door of the modern world. Shakespeare's "universal sympathy"—to quote Coleridge—did not include the plainly-clad tub-thumper who dared to accuse him to his face of serving the Babylonish Whore. Shakespeare sneered at the Puritan instead of studying him; with the result that he belongs rather to the Renaissance than to the modern world, in spite even of his Hamlet. The best of a Wordsworth or a Turgenief is outside him; he would ...

— The Man Shakespeare • Frank Harris

... flats stretching away into the shining regions of the sun. At some distance, raised on a dazzling white wall above the desert in an unshaded place, Domini saw a narrow, two-sided white house, with a flat roof and a few tiny loopholes instead of windows. One side looked full upon the waterless river bed, the other, at right angles to it, ran back towards a thicket of palms and ended in an arcade of six open Moorish arches, through which the fierce blue of the cloudless ...

— The Garden Of Allah • Robert Hichens

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