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Definition of Timeless existence

1. Noun. A state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Timeless Existence

Literary usage of Timeless existence

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

1. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1875)
"The temporal existence of conditioned beings, as a different and more real one, repudiates the timeless existence and crowds it into the background; ..."

2. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1875)
"Nor does Mailer's reply to the objection remove it. He says: " That the timeless existence of a being by his entrance into time is annulled, ..."

3. Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace-book Designed for the Use by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1907)
"It lean interesting question whether the human spirit Is capable of timeless existence, and whether the conception of time is purely physical. ..."

4. Body and Mind; a History and a Defence of Animism by William McDougall (1920)
"these objections, can we admit that the phrase, the timeless existence of the self, has any meaning? In common with the great majority of men of trained ..."

5. Body and Mind: A History and a Defense of Animism by William McDougall (1911)
"In fact the words will and purpose are deprived at once of all meaning, if we assign them to a timeless existence ; the conceptions are inevitably bound up ..."

6. An introduction to the reading and study of the English Bible by William Carpenter (1868)
"3, the term used in reference to what is created) the enduring, timeless existence of the eternal presence. It is said, accordingly, (John viii. ..."

7. The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia by James Orr (1915)
"timeless existence —being or entity without change—is what we here mean by eternity, and not mere everlastingness or permanence through time. ..."

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