preexistent
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7.6
- adjective
- /priːˈɛksɪstənt/
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preexistente
- The lack of preexistent urban infrastructure in such places has created severe deficiencies in housing, health, sanitation, and other services (Sawyer 1987).
Examples
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The means does not necessarily justify the end, for I would insist that the end is preexistent and in the mean.
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Okay, but how would amending a preexistent constitution help with that?
Blog text (11) -
There is in him no preexistent divine subject who has become an actor in human history through the human nature he has made his own.
Academic text (1992) -
Their study did not specifically control for age, preexistent ear disease, prior history of trauma, or past exposure to ototoxic drugs.
Academic text (1996) -
The point of Nicea, given the agreement on the incarnation of the Word, was that the one acting in the actions of Jesus, the preexistent Son, was no less than God.
Academic text (1992) -
Although the Americans, in their aggressive pursuit of land, money, and power, smothered preexistent social relations and spatial patterns even more thoroughly than had the Spanish before them, the region remains distinctive, and the landscape still reveals elements of the former era.
Academic text (1992) -
On the other hand, Christ is not only the incarnate Jewish man but also the eternal, preexistent Word of God, "which enlightens every man who comes into the world" (Jn 1:9).
Blog text (6) -
Spanish intrusion during the 1500s into the Pueblo settlements of the upper Rio Grande disrupted preexistent trade patterns and imposed new systems of oppression and dependency.
Academic text (1992) -
The concept of the preexistent universe challenges our understanding of creation.
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Historians often examine preexistent cultures to understand modern societies.
Synonyms
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2.9
Happening before something else in time
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4.1
Already present before something else happens, like a health condition
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9.9
Happening before something else
Already there before a given time or event
Present before something else happened
Antonyms
How Long
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Morphology
Etymology
Preexistent is made of pre- ('before') and exist ('to be'), so it describes something that was 'already present' or 'in existence before' a particular event.