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In a statement, English Heritage said a panel had reassessed the existing shortlist and that factors such as a limited association with London and the pre-existence of other plaques were taken into account.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2012

Such a change would not, as your article stated, require "a most awkward reinterpretation of Mormon teaching on pre-existence."

From Time Magazine Archive

He also maintains that belief in Jesus' pre-existence was not a late development, but rather part of the earliest material in the New Testament.

From Time Magazine Archive

Few theological animals went into the hencoop, which was a theory of the pre-existence of souls.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such phrases, in short, suggest the fancy that a man had a pre-existence somewhere, and went about like Er the Pamphylian in Plato's myth, selecting the conditions of his next stay upon earth.

From Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II by Stephen, Leslie