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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 of human souls, so far at least as that doctrine is compatible with religion, was adopted by many of the Greek and Latin fathers. See Beausobre, Hist. du Manicheisme, ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon


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