Citations:instead

Adverb: In the place of something

 * 1910 - Corra Harris, A Circuit Rider's Wife
 * You will find, instead, besides a few "prominent members," the poor, the simple-minded, the ne'er-do-wells morally, who have always flocked to the Methodist fold for this pitying reason, because they find that, if fallen, it is easier to rise in grace according to the doctrines of that church.


 * 1914 - W. W. Jacobs, Night Watches part 3, "The Understudy"
 * They 'ad on'y been ashore a week, and, 'aving been turned out of a music-'all the night afore because a man Ginger Dick had punched in the jaw wouldn't behave 'imself, they said they'd spend the rest o' their money on beer instead.