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Etymology
From Latin extantia, exstantia (“a standing out”), from exstans, present participle. See extant.
Noun
extance (plural extances)
- (obsolete, rare) Emergence.
- c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the section)”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton […]; and Mr. [John] Morphew […], published 1716, →OCLC:
- He […] who hath in his intellect the ideal existences of things and entities before their extances.
References
- OED
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