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单词 coexistence
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coexistencen.

/kəʊɛɡˈzɪstəns/
Etymology: < co- prefix + existence n.; compare French coexistence.
a. Existence together or in conjunction.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > [noun] > coexistence
compresencea1640
coexistence1646
coexistency1646
contemporianism1656
consistence1659
superposition1858
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. iv. 345 A coexistence with that which is internally presented unto the understanding. View more context for this quotation
1754 J. Edwards Careful Enq. Freedom of Will ii. vii. 68 Choice may be immediately after a State of Indifference, but has no Co-existence with it.
1822 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater 41 In the relation to each other..of succession..and not of co-existence.
1846 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic (ed. 4) iii. v. §8 The coexistences of phenomena can in no case be universal, unless the coexistences of the primeval causes..can be reduced to an universal law.
b. With special reference to peaceful existence side by side of states professing different ideologies. Also transferred.
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1920 tr. V. Lenin in N.Y. Evening Jrnl. 21 Feb. 3/1 You ask me about our plans in Asia. They are the same as in Europe: peaceful, neighborly life with all peoples; with the workers and peasants of all nations.]
1954 Economist 30 Oct. 358/1 Although this is welcome if it provides some possibility of a move towards a more stable co-existence of the Communist and free worlds, nothing could be more dangerous to the West than to assume that this can be achieved at the moment.
1954 Economist 30 Oct. 358/1 ‘Peaceful co-existence’ is in origin a Communist phrase, and, although it has been taken up by western statesmen, it has a sinister place in the glossary of Soviet double-talk.
1955 H. Hodgkinson Doubletalk 24 Co-existence or ‘peaceful co-existence’... The phrase..does not mean ‘living peaceably together’. It is compatible with propaganda against, isolation from and peripheral risings against the non-Communist world.
1956 Times 10 July 12/5 In a world where the word ‘peace’ had been replaced by that ugly circumlocution ‘competitive coexistence’..art should be held high.
1959 Spectator 2 Oct. 437/3 The Warsaw Festival has established itself as protagonist of musical ‘co-existence’, as an agreed field of ‘peaceful competition’ between conflicting systems.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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