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c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 2087 As it [sc. deceyt] were soth, in verray existence.

c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 266 Allas what harme dothe Apparence Whan hit is fals in existence.

a1500 ( J. Lydgate Q. Margaret's Entry into London l. 72 in Mod. Lang. Rev. (1912) 7 228 (MED) Erthe, See and Trees shall ben, in existence, Obeisaunt to mannes wille and plesaunce.

1564 T. Harding in J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare (1565) viii. xxvi. 408 Through power of the Mystical Blissinge, the Signes be in existence, and in deede the thinges whiche they are beleued to be, soothely the Bodie and Bloude of Christe.

1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Dialogicall Disc. Spirits & Diuels 148 All this (forsooth) by a pretie distinstion [sic] of a thing in existence, and of a thing in appearance.

1642 R. Baker tr. V. Malvezzi Disc. upon Tacitus 467 The patterne of a House is more perfectly represented in the understanding, then the fabrick of the House it selfe is in existence.

1651 J. Saint-Amard tr. F. Micanzio Life Father Paul sig. K6 Fra. Antonio, who in appearance seemed thereupon a little to withdraw himselfe from that conversation, but in existence and really they had private meetings together without the convent.

1658 J. Rawson Gerizim & Ebal 109 The Lord determined not to deliver them,..and this was from all eternity before they were in existence.

1764 Gentleman's & London Mag. Apr. 232/1 Nor will his exploits in Portugal be forgotten, whilst Count de la Lippe is in existence to relate them.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 117 The nobility and the clergy..kept learning in existence.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 585 The earth was the most consequential aggregate of matter in existence.

1896 Science 6 Nov. 670/2 The most primitive animals in existence are found in the seven Phyla of the lower Protozoan sub-grade.

1906 A. G. Leonard Lower Niger & its Tribes iii. 301 There is in existence a tree..that bears a red fruit, called blood-plum.

1989 C. Caufield Multiple Exposures (1990) vi. 52 There were very few alpha monitors in existence in 1944.

2011 Atlantic Nov. 110/2 ‘Brute-force attacks’, in which a hacker's computer tries every word or combination of words in existence..to see if it finds a match.