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INST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inst mean?
• INST (adjective)
The adjective INST has 1 sense:
1. in or of the present month
Familiarity information: INST used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In or of the present month
Synonyms:
inst; instant
Context example:
your letter of the 10th inst
Similar:
present (temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration)
Context examples
Listen to this: ‘Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten o’clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was dressed in,’ etc., etc.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He rummaged amid his newspapers, glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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