extance

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

extance (plural extances)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Emergence.
    • c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the section)”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, [], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: [] [A]t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton []; and Mr. [John] Morphew [], published 1716, →OCLC:
      He [] who hath in his intellect the ideal existences of things and entities before their extances.

References[edit]

  • OED