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extances

extances is the plural of extance.

Meaning of extance

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...

Questions about extances

What is extances the plural of?
Extances is the plural of extance.

Words near extances in the dictionary

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

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