self-existent

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English

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Etymology

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From self- +‎ existent.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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self-existent (comparative more self-existent, superlative most self-existent)

  1. Existing without having been created.
  2. Existing independent of any extrinsic sustaining force.
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Romance and Reality. [], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, [], →OCLC, page 89:
      Campbell exquisitely says, "'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view:" and let the heart be thankful from its inmost depths for that imaginative and self-existent faculty which first lends enchantment to the distance.

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