existency

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Noun[edit]

existency (countable and uncountable, plural existencies)

  1. Archaic form of existence.
    • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: [] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, [], published 1677, →OCLC:
      variety of states or manner of existency naturally and necessarily concomitant unto it

References[edit]

existency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.