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English
Etymology
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: t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton ; and Mr. Morphew , published 1716, →OCLC:He […] who hath in his intellect the ideal existences of things and entities before their extances.
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