instrumentality

UK /ˌɪnstɹʊmɛnˈtælɪti/ US /ˌɪnstɹʊmɛnˈtælɪti/
noun 3

Definitions

noun

1

The condition or quality of being instrumental; being useful; serving a purpose.

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

2

Something that is instrumental; an instrument.

He spoke of the various instrumentalities which were now employed for the conversion of the world.

Delays and failures will only set her to casting about for new instrumentalities.

3

A governmental organ with a specific purpose.

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.

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