单词 | presencing |
释义 | presencingn. rare. The action or process of summoning up the presence of something; the action of making present. ΚΠ 1637 J. Mede Name Altar 38 Temples..Places, whereunto the gods..were confined and limited; and, for the presenceing of whom, a statue was necessary. a1638 J. Mede Apostasy Latter Times (1641) 20 The approaching or presencing of Dæmons. 1979 D. Levy in PN Rev. No. 9. 10/2 It is not man who speaks but, if the words are really to bring the truth of Being to light, ‘language’, conceived as the impersonal vehicle for the presencing and preserving of the truth of Being. 1993 C. Tilley Interpretative Archaeol. v. 198 In Earlier Neolithic Brittany the presencing of ancestors may have underpinned a dominant perception of ‘how to go on’ in society, a perception founded in relations of kinship, exchange, reproduction and labour. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1637 |
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