Extance

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Emergence. obsolete, rare

    "He […] who hath in his intellect the ideal existences of things and entities before their extances."

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"He […] who hath in his intellect the ideal existences of things and entities before their extances."

Etymology

From Latin extantia, exstantia (“a standing out”), from exstans, present participle. See extant.

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