presence
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[edit] English
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- præsence (archaic)
[edit] Etymology
Through Old French, from Latin praesentia (“a being present”), from praesentem.
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presence (plural presences)
- The fact or condition of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand;
- Any painter can benefit from the presence of a live model from which to draw.
- The part of space within one's immediate vicinity.
- Bob never said anything about it in my presence.
- A quality of poise and effectiveness that enables a performer to achieve a close relationship with his audience.
- Despite being less than five foot, she filled up the theatre with her stage presence.
- Something (as a spirit) felt or believed to be present.
- I'm convinced that there was a presence in that building that I can't explain, which led to my heroic actions.
- A company's business activity in a particular market.
- The state of being closely focused on the here and now, not distracted by irrelevant thoughts
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fact or condition of being present
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presence (third-person singular simple present presences, present participle presencing, simple past and past participle presenced)
- To make or become present.
- 2005, James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry, published by Stanford University Press, ISBN-13 978-0804750714:
- From the overtaxing of the regime's paranoiac classifications and monitoring of the social field, Heidegger was to await in vain the presencing of that which is present, the revelation of the Being of beings in its precedence to governmental control.
- 2005, James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry, published by Stanford University Press, ISBN-13 978-0804750714:
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[edit] External links
- presence in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- “presence” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
- presence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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Most common English words before 1923: window · instead · giving · #656: presence · learned · minutes · appear
