extance

English

Etymology

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

Noun

extance (plural extances)

  1. (obsolete, rare) emergence
    • 1682, Sir Thomas Browne, Christian Morals
      He […] who hath in his intellect the ideal existences of things and entities before their extances.

References
  • OED
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