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self-eˈxistence
[self- 5 c.]
Existence of a being by virtue of his inherent nature independently of any other being.
1697J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 84 Even Self-existence signifies a kind of Form or Mode of the Subject that Self-exists. 1712Blackmore Creation iii. 102 'Tis plain, it then may absent be from all; Who then will this a Self-existence call? 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 325 That Name which He [God] vouchsafed to give to Himself, expressed His Self-existence. 1862Spencer First Princ. i. ii. §11 (1867) 31 Even were self-existence conceivable, it would not in any sense be an explanation of the Universe.
So † self-eˈxistency.
1631Gouge God's Arrows iii. §72. 317 Jehovah..sets out..the eternity and selfe-existency of God. a1653― Comm. Heb. i. 10 Christ in regard of his self-existency giveth to himself this title, ‘I am that I am’. |