unpresent

I am shut up in a world of consciousness, an unknown I in an unknown world: surely this world of my unwilled, unchosen, compelled existence, cannot be shut out from him, cannot be unknown to him, cannot be impenetrable, impermeable, unpresent to him from whom I am! nay, is it not his thinking in which I think? is it not by his consciousness that I am conscious?

Unspoken Sermons Second Series 1824-1905 1885

I am shut up in a world of consciousness, an unknown _I_ in an unknown world: surely this world of my unwilled, unchosen, compelled existence, cannot be shut out from him, cannot be unknown to him, cannot be impenetrable, impermeable, unpresent to him from whom I am! nay, is it not his thinking in which I think? is it not by his consciousness that I am conscious?

Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. George MacDonald 1864

Davie's heart would glow, and he would feel ready to do whatever that son might want him to do; and Donal hoped, and had good ground for hoping, that, when the hour of trial came, the youth would be able to hold, not merely by the unseen, but by the seemingly unpresent and unfelt, in the name of the eternally true.

Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864

And I would argue that the police can’t make someone unpresent and then get permission from whoever is left.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Georgia v. Randolph Apply to Computers? 2010

And I would argue that the police can’t make someone unpresent and then get permission from whoever is left.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Georgia v. Randolph Apply to Computers? 2010