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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrine that the soul has a preëxistent state before it is united with the body.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Philos.) The theory of a preëxistence of souls before their association with human bodies.
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- noun philosophy The
theory thatsouls exist prior to their association withhuman bodies .
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preexistent + -ism
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