Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being presential; presentness; presence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete State of being actually present.

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  • noun obsolete State of being actually present.

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Examples

  • First, as they are in themselves, in so far, to wit, as it sees them in their presentiality: secondly, as in their causes, inasmuch as it sees the order of causes in relation to their effects.

    Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

  • God, by reason of his eternal, infinite, and indivisible nature, is, by one single act of duration, present to all the successive portions of time; and consequently to all things successively existing in them: which eternal, indivisible act of his existence, makes all futures actually present to him; and it is the presentiality of the object which founds the unerring certainty of his knowledge.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

  • But to this I answer, that a good is not barely to be measured by its immediate presentiality; but by its adequate coexistence to the soul, whose duration being immortal, reaches more to the future, than it possesses of the present.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823

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