instrumentality

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English instrumental Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English instrumentality From instrumental + -ity.

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.”