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postexistent

postexistent adjective: existing or living afterward.

Adjective

postexistent (not comparable)

  1. existing or living afterward
    • For as for that conceit of Anaxagoras, of pre and post-existent atoms, endued with all those several forms and qualities of bodies ingenerably and incorruptibly, it was nothing but an adulteration of the genuine Atomical philosophy […]1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […]...
    • But the full meaning of this manifestation was revealed only when the postexistent Christ came to live in his followers.1972, W. Nicol, The Sēmeia in the fourth gospel: Tradition and redaction, page 137

Origin of postexistent

From post- + existent.

Questions about postexistent

What does postexistent mean?
Postexistent means existing or living afterward.
What part of speech is postexistent?
Postexistent is an adjective.

Words near postexistent in the dictionary

  1. postexilic
  2. postexist
  3. postexisted
  4. postexistence
  5. postexistences
  6. postexistent
  7. postexisting
  8. postexists
  9. postexocytotic
  10. postexpansion
  11. postexperience

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