preexist
verb (used without object)
to exist beforehand.
preexistence
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a word derived from
preexist.
Example Sentences
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He was like some one lying in twilit, formless preexistence, and stretching out his hands lovingly towards many-coloured, many-sounding life.
From Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson
Question.—How many kinds of preexistence and of phenomena are there?
From Some Answered Questions by `Abdu'l-Bahá
And finally, in his Epistles, he declares the preexistence of Christ, and the fact of Christ's utterances through the prophets as far back in time as the days of Noah.
From A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions by Augustus Hopkins Strong
It is true—to do complete justice to neospiritualism—that its position offers certain advantages from the point of view of the almost inconceivable problem of the preexistence of the future.
From The Unknown Guest by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
The spirit is independent of the body, and in relation to it the spirit is an essential preexistence.
From Some Answered Questions by `Abdu'l-Bahá
