extance

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noun

Emergence.

OriginLatin extantia →
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Meanings

nounextance (plural extances)

plural extances

  1. obsoleterareEmergence.

    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, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton […]; and Mr. [John] Morphew […], published 1716, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinextantia
  2. Englishextance

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

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “extance,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extance.

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