Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A standing out to view; actual existence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Outward existence.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete, rare emergence

Etymologies

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Latin extantia, exstantia, a standing out, from exstans, present participle. See extant.

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