instrumentality
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The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency.
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[ Technology is] the instrumentality for accessing and using free energies in human societies for human and social purposes.
Money is the great instrumentality for manufacturing.
In all grades of army life, the proletariat is in control through the instrumentality of the communist commissars, who both at the front and at the rear are mainly drawn from among the workers.
Dec. 31. My health is much better than for years. My mental powers also are as good as they have been at any time during the last three years. I ascribe this to God's blessing, through the instrumentality of early rising, and plunging my head into cold water when I rise.
In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our object.
The Sovereign can only act by advisers, and through the instrumentality of those who are neither infallible nor impeccable- answerable, indeed, for all that the irresponsible Sovereign may do, but liable to err through undue influence, and to be swayed by improper motives.