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Definition of Preexists
1. preexist [v] - See also: preexist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preexists
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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