self-existent
Americanadjective
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existing independently of any cause, as God.
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having an independent existence.
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of self-existent
First recorded in 1695–1705
Example Sentences
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Lewis dismissed the philosophy that mind results from nature: "If any thought is valid, an eternal, self-existent Reason must exist and must be the source of my own imperfect and intermittent rationality."
From Time Magazine Archive
For one thing, every proof seems to have a plausible refutation; for another, only a committed Thomist is likely to be spiritually moved by the realization that there is a self-existent Prime Mover.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jehovah, je-hō′va, n. the eternal or self-existent Being, the chief Hebrew name of the Deity.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
He whom we seek will be found to be also a spiritual person who is self-existent, and who sets his own bounds to his activity.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
The American system, as we see, begins with an unknown great, indefinite number of uncreated beings,—in other words, of self-existent personages or divinities.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Jeremiah Curtin
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