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Preexistence   Listen
noun
Preexistence  n.  
1.
Existence in a former state, or previous to something else. "Wisdom declares her antiquity and preexistence to all the works of this earth."
2.
Existence of the soul before its union with the body; a doctrine held by certain philosophers.





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"Preexistence" Quotes from Famous Books



... commerce" does not mean to make a road, or dig a canal, or clear out a river, or deepen a harbor would seem to be obvious to the common understanding. To "regulate" admits or affirms the preexistence of the thing to be regulated. In this case it presupposes the existence of commerce, and, of course, the means by which and the channels through which commerce is carried on. It confers no creative power; it only assumes control over that which may have been brought into ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Polk - Section 3 (of 3) of Volume 4: James Knox Polk • Compiled by James D. Richardson


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