Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PRE-EX-IST'ENCE
PRE-EX-IST'ENCE, n.
- Existence previous to something else. Wisdom declares her antiquity and pre-existence to all the works of this earth. – Burnet.
- Existence of the soul before its union with the body, or before the body is formed; a tenet of eastern sages. – Addison.
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