Definition of existance
1. existence [ n ] the state or fact of existing
Examples: : "a point of view gradually coming into being"
"laws in existence for centuries"
(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)
In a long commentary which he has inserted in the published text of the first act of the play , he says at one point : `` However , that experience never raised a doubt in his mind as to the reality of the underworld or the existence of Lucifer 's many faced lieutenants .
(Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)
When we say that a mythological mode of thought must be completely abandoned , we mean it must be abandoned as the sole or proper means for presenting the Christian understanding of existence .
Although the theological forms of the past continue to exist in a way they do not in a more secularized situation , the striking thing is the rapidity with which they are being reduced to a marginal existence .
(Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)
Irenaeus does not claim pre-existence for the human soul ; therefore there is no need for him , as there is for Origen , to identify existence itself with the fall .
Existence is created and willed by God and is not the consequence of a pre-existent rebellion or of a cosmic descent from eternity into history .
Synonyms existence being beingness Related Terms nonbeing nonexistence state life life presence animation possibility actuality eternity coexistence preexistence subsistence transcendence exist nonexistent existent2. existence [ n ] everything that exists anywhere
Examples:
"they study the evolution of the universe"
"the biggest tree in existence"
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