Lexic.us

Definition of Nonextant

1. Adjective. No longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives. "Extinct laws and customs"

2. Adjective. No longer existing or inaccessible through loss or destruction. "Its nonextant original was written on vellum"

Definition of Nonextant

1. Adjective. Not extant. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nonextant

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonextant

nonexplorer nonexplorers nonexplosive nonexponential nonexponentiality nonexponentially nonexport nonexportable nonexportation nonexposed

nonexpository nonexpressing nonexpression nonexpressions nonexpressive nonextant (current term) nonextended nonextensile nonextensive nonexternal

nonextractable nonextraditable nonextraneous nonextraterrestrial nonextremal nonextremality nonextreme nonextremist nonextremists nonextrinsic

Literary usage of Nonextant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law of Real Property: (based on Minor's Institutes) by Raleigh C. Minor, John Wurts, John Barbee Minor (1909)
"From a very early period of the law—that is, from the twelfth century—probably in consequence of some nonextant statute or assize, in ancient time, ..."

2. Report on "The Star-Spangled Banner," "Hail Columbia," "America," "Yankee by Oscar George Theodore Sonneck (1909)
"Between 1789 and 1824 our anonymous therefore must have heard many stanzas not printed in the nonextant publication of 1789. ..."

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