self-existent
adjective
existing independently of any cause, as God.
self-existence
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a word derived from
self-existent.
Example Sentences
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The world exists for it as an innumerable congeries of things, each one independent of the other, and possessing self-existence.
From Pedagogics as a System by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett
In holiness there is combined the Divine self-existence as a perfection of life, and the Divine self-exertion in the realizing a Godlike perfection of life in the world.
From Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy by Andrew Murray
Absoluteness is that quality of the necessary Being by which he is endowed with self-existence, self-dependence, and totality.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
The mind refuses to grasp the idea of self-existence, of existence without a beginning.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
Self-existence necessarily means existence without a beginning; and to form a conception of self-existence is to form a conception of existence without a beginning.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
