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presentiality Now rare.|prɪzɛnʃɪˈælɪtɪ|
[ad. med.L. præsentiālitās (of time, Aquinas): see prec. and -ity. So OF. presencialité (in Godef.).]
The condition or character of being presential. a. Presentness (in time).
1624F. White Repl. Fisher 424 This vnion is onely accidentall, and in regard of presentialitie and vbitie. 1652T. Froysell Gale Opportunity Ep. Ded. 2 Let Faith give you a presentiality of things to come... Faith gives them a present Existence. 1664Baxter Divine Life i. v. 28 That terms of priority, presentiality, and posteriority, have not that significancy in or about Eternity as they have with us. 1692South Serm. (1697) I. 334 Which..makes all futures actually present to him; and it is the Presentiality of the Object which founds the unerring certainty of his knowledge. 1848Hampden Bampt. Lect. (ed. 3) 175 They [events] are fixed and immutable in their ‘presentiality’ before God, whose eternity admits no change, no succession. 1911tr. Aquinas's Summa Theol. I. xiv. 205 His glance is carried from eternity over all things, as they are in their presentiality. 1969G. Leff Hist. & Social Theory i. 18 Its presentiality takes precedence over all its other attributes.
b. The fact or quality of being present in place; presence.
1651Biggs New Disp. §287 It's the significator of the presentiality of heat. 1852Bp. Forbes Nicene Cr. 54 Incomprehensibility implies the negation of any limit in substantial presentiality or presence. 1894Froude Life & Lett. Erasm. 125 Circumincession is when a thing subsists really in something else which is really distinct, by the mutual assistance of presentiality in the same essence. |