PREEXISTENCE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Preexistence

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

noun

Preexistence n.

Existence in a former state, or previous to something else. "Wisdom declares her antiquity and preexistence to all the works of this earth."

Existence of the soul before its union with the body; a doctrine held by certain philosophers.

See images of 'Preexistence'

Etymology of 'Preexistence'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Preexistence" Quotes from Famous Books

... stands before His guilty judges and their suborned witnesses and while they mock and deride Him He breaks His hitherto amazing silence not to demonstrate to them the truth of His incarnation nor the proof of His preexistence, but in calm and measured utterance to tell them that after they shall have put Him to death He will come the Second time; and they shall see Him descending from heaven seated upon the cloud of shekinal glory and ...

— Why I Preach the Second Coming • Isaac Massey Haldeman

... an idealist in the Platonic sense of the word, a spiritualist as opposed to a materialist. He believes, he says, "as the wise Spenser teaches," that the soul makes its own body. This, of course, involves the doctrine of preexistence; a doctrine older than Spenser, older than Plato or Pythagoras, having its cradle in India, fighting its way down through Greek philosophers and Christian fathers and German professors, to our own time, ...

— Ralph Waldo Emerson • Oliver Wendell Holmes

Words linked to "Preexistence" : beingness, preexist