Definition of Preexists

1. Verb. (third-person singular of preexist) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Preexists

1. preexist [v] - See also: preexist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Preexists

preexcites
preexciting
preexempt
preexempted
preexempting
preexempts
preexilic
preexist
preexisted
preexistence
preexistences
preexistency
preexistent
preexistentism
preexisting
preexists (current term)
preexpectation
preexpectations
preexperiment
preexponent
preexponential
preexponents
preexpose
preexposed
preexposes
preexposing
preexposure
prefab
prefabbed
prefabbing

Literary usage of Preexists

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

1. History of Christian Doctrine by George Park Fisher (1896)
"... the soul of Adam alone having been created; secondly, that for every individual a new soul is created ; thirdly, that the soul preexists in each case, ..."

2. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1868)
"... the soul of Adam alone having been created ; secondly, that for every individual a new soul is created ; thirdly, that the soul preexists in each case, ..."

3. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1868)
"... the soul of Adam alone having been created; secondly, that for every individual a new soul is created; thirdly, that the soul preexists in each case, ..."

4. Ultimate Conceptions of Faith by George Angier Gordon (1903)
"It is not Jesus who preexists before his advent; it is the Logos, the Christ, the eternal Son who preexists. Preexistence concerns primarily the doctrine of ..."

5. The Unknown Guest by Maurice Maeterlinck (1914)
"future preexists, perhaps it is even more ... Now, from the moment that it preexists, it is not surprising that we should be able to know it; ..."

6. The Unknown Guest by Maurice Maeterlinck, Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (1914)
"To sum up, if it is difficult for us to conceive that the future preexists, perhaps it is even more difficult for us to understand that it does not exist; ..."

7. Elements of Moral Theology, Based on the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas. by John Jay Elmenderf (1892)
"-4s in every artificer preexists the idea of those things which are to be produced by his art, so in every governor preexists the idea of the order of those ..."

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