coessentiality

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English

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Etymology

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From coessential +‎ -ity.

Noun

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coessentiality (usually uncountable, plural coessentialities)

  1. Participation in the same essence.
    • 1693, [Robert South], chapter VII, in Animadversions upon Dr. Sherlock’s Book, Entituled A Vindication of the Holy and Ever-blessed Trinity, &c. [], London: [] Randal Taylor, [], →OCLC, pages 172–173:
      [] Coeſſentiality, Sameneſs of Nature, and Sameneſs of Eſſence, [] do all of them, in the ſenſe of the Fathers, denote but one and the ſame Thing, viz. A Numerical Unity of the Divine Nature, []
  2. The condition or quality of being coessential (mutually essential for something else).

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