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
Another myth closely resembles one which is indicated in the Hebrew Scriptures, viz., that Narayana, or the spirit of God, a self-existent entity, moved over the waters, and made them bring forth all things living.
From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Inman, Thomas
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 Jones, Jesse H.
Always in the self-existent, the absolute and infinite, spiritual Person, the subject and object are identical.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse H.
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