pluripresencen.
/ˌplʊərɪˈprɛzns/, /ˌplɔːrɪˈprɛzns/, U.S. /ˌplʊrəˈprɛz(ə)ns/ Now rare.
Presence in more than one place at the same time; spec. as an attribute of saints.
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the world > space > place > presence > [noun] > being in more than one place at a time
multipresence1615
pluripresence1791
bilocation1858
multilocation1865
multilocality1935
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1773 I. 419 A. Toplady: ‘Does not their invocation of saints suppose omnipresence in the saints?’ Johnson: ‘No Sir; it supposes only pluripresence.’
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 496 What was more impolitic than to reject the services of good soldiers, seamen, lawyers, diplomatists, financiers, because they hold unsound opinions about the number of the sacraments or the pluripresence of saints?
1860 Actress in High Life 369 Does he take you for a Popish saint, endowed with pluripresence, and able to be in Andalusia, at Badajoz, Elvas, and Alcantara, all at one time!
1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism I. i. 80 The miracle of trans~substantiation seems to destroy all the improbability of the pluri-presence of a human body.
1996 B. W. Aldiss in Sci. Fiction Mar. 9 Pluripresence has been universally adopted without that conceptual questioning which was once a hallmark of good sf.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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