"imitancy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1832, Thomas Carlyle, Boswell's Life of Johnson:",
          "text": "Or, the servile imitancy, and yet also a nobler relationship and mysterious union to one another which lies in such imitancy, of Mankind might be illustrated under the different figure (itself nowise original) of a Flock of Sheep.",
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        "Tendency to imitation."
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