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  • noun Plural form of existency.

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Examples

  • The only thin that really sucks is that you must go to Mexico City to buy them and are subject to available existencies in the store at the moment.

    It Could Be Worse for Gun Owners 2009

  • The only thin that really sucks is that you must go to Mexico City to buy them and are subject to available existencies in the store at the moment.

    It Could Be Worse for Gun Owners 2009

  • My own conviction is that the divine essence and the divine life are identical; that God, a spirit, is necessary, infinite, conscious VITALITY -- the voluntary Originator of all existencies besides himself.

    A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication Daniel Clark

  • From my heated couch of sandy earth I gazed helplessly but rapturously upon them, wondering at the enormity of occupied and unoccupied space, revolving thoughts of past, present, and future existencies, and of how all that is earthly fadeth away.

    Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

  • Even the figure assumed by Roderic, his garb, his step, his gesture had something in them of angelic and celestial without the blaze of divinity, and without the awfulness that surrounds the godlike existencies, that sometimes condescend to visit this sublunary scene.

    Imogen A Pastoral Romance William Godwin 1796

  • I feel bodies which are not myself: there are other existencies then.

    Letters 1760

  • One low-minded gratification has succeeded to another; pleasures of an elevated and intellectual kind have been strangers to his heart; and were it not that the subtlety of wit was a gift bestowed upon him by supernatural existencies, he must long ere this have sunk his mind to the lowest savageness and the most contemptible imbecility. "

    Imogen A Pastoral Romance William Godwin 1796

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