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[ noun ] the state or fact of existing
Examples : "a point of view gradually coming into being" "laws in existence for centuries" Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)In a long commentary which he has inserted in the published text of the first act of the play , he says at one point : `` However , that experience never raised a doubt in his mind as to the reality of the underworld or the existence of Lucifer 's many faced lieutenants . (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)When we say that a mythological mode of thought must be completely abandoned , we mean it must be abandoned as the sole or proper means for presenting the Christian understanding of existence . Although the theological forms of the past continue to exist in a way they do not in a more secularized situation , the striking thing is the rapidity with which they are being reduced to a marginal existence . (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)Irenaeus does not claim pre-existence for the human soul ; therefore there is no need for him , as there is for Origen , to identify existence itself with the fall . Existence is created and willed by God and is not the consequence of a pre-existent rebellion or of a cosmic descent from eternity into history . |
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[ noun ] everything that exists anywhere
Examples "they study the evolution of the universe" "the biggest tree in existence" |
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