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English
Etymology
From self- + existent.
Pronunciation
Adjective
self-existent (comparative more self-existent, superlative most self-existent)
- Existing without having been created.
- Existing independent of any extrinsic sustaining force.
1831, L E L[andon], chapter V, in Romance and Reality. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 89:Campbell exquisitely says, "'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view:" and let the heart be thankful from its inmost depths for that imaginative and self-existent faculty which first lends enchantment to the distance.
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