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instantiate

ins·tan·tiate

UK/ɪnˈstænʃieɪt/ US/ˌɪˈnstænʃiˌeɪt/ uncommon

verb

1.

represent by an instance

  • “This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect”
2.

find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word)

  • “The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect”

Origin

From Latin instāntia + -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, instance + -ate.

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