pluripresence
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]pluripresence (uncountable)
- Presence in more than one place.
- 1791, James Boswell, “[1773]”, in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume I, London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC, page 419:
- [Augustus] Toplady. "Does not the invocation of ſaints ſuppoſe omnipreſence in the ſaints?" [Samuel] Johnson. [I]t ſuppoſes only pluripreſence; and when ſpirits are diveſted of matter, it ſeems probable that they ſhould ſee with more extent than when in an embodied ſtate.["]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pluripresence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)