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self-existent

adj
/ˌsɛlfɛɡzˈɪstənt/UK

Etymology

From self- + existent.

Definitions

  1. Existing without having been created.

  2. Existing independent of any extrinsic sustaining force.

    • Campbell exquisitely says, "'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view:" and let the heart be thankful from its inmost depths for that imaginative and self-existent faculty which first lends enchantment to the distance.

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