Instead /(?)/

In·stead

Instead

adv.
  1. In the place or room; -- usually followed by of.
    Let thistles grow of wheat.
    — Job xxxi. 40.
    Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab.
    — 2 Sam. xvii. 25.
  2. Equivalent; equal to; -- usually with of. [R.]
    This very consideration to a wise man is instead of a thousand arguments, to satisfy him, that in those times no such thing was believed.