extance

English

Etymology

Latin extantia, exstantia (“a standing out”), from exstans, present participle. See extant.

Noun

extance (plural extances)

1. (obsolete, rare) Emergence.
   • c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the section)”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton […]; and Mr. [John] Morphew […], published 1716, →OCLC:

     He […] who hath in his intellect the ideal existences of things and entities before their extances.

References

• OED