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▪ I. inexistence1|ɪnɛgˈzɪstəns|
[f. in-2 + existence: see inexistent a.1 and -ence.]
The fact or condition of existing in something; inherence.
1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. 134 By reason of their mutuall inexistence. 1654Warren Unbelievers 70 There was an inexistence, or being of all men in Adam. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §36. 559 These three Hypostases or Persons..have a Mutual Περιχώρησις and Ἐνύπαρξις, Inexistence, and Permeation of one another. 1684Boyle Min. Waters 52 He..may..be also inabled to discover the presence or inexistence of divers other Minerals. 1871Fraser Life Berkeley 422 Separate inexistence in perception is one phase of the dualism of Berkeley.
▪ II. ineˈxistence2 Now rare.
[f. in-3 + existence: see inexistent a.2 and -ence. In mod.F. inexistence (Littré).]
The fact or condition of not existing; non-existence.
1623Cockeram ii, The not Being of a thing, Inexistence, Inessence. 1648Boyle Seraph. Love (1660) 68 Our Inexistence..was a condition wherein nothing in us was capable of being a Motive of God's love. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. iii. 48 note, That way, which some Sceptics take to prove the inexistence of truth. 1725Broome On Odyss. (J.), He calls up the heroes of former ages from a state of inexistence to adorn and diversify his poem. 1830W. Phillips Mt. Sinai ii. 422 Till..Death drop stricken on his latest prey, To inexistence starved. |