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extance

extance noun: emergence.

Noun

extance (plural extances)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Emergence.
    • He […] who hath in his intellect the ideal existences of things and entities before their extances.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...

Forms of extance

pluralextances

Origin of extance

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

Questions about extance

What does extance mean?
Extance means emergence.
What part of speech is extance?
Extance is a noun.
What is the plural of extance?
The plural of extance is extances.

Words near extance in the dictionary

  1. exsuscitation
  2. exsymbiotic
  3. ext
  4. ext.
  5. extacy
  6. extance
  7. extances
  8. extancies
  9. extancy
  10. extant
  11. extasied

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