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Extance vs Extancy - What's the difference?

extance | extancy |

As nouns the difference between extance and extancy

is that extance is (obsolete|rare) emergence while extancy is (obsolete) the state of rising above others; a projection or extancy can be (obsolete) the state of being extant; existence.

extance

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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

    extancy

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) extantia, (exstantia).

    Noun

    (extancies)
  • (obsolete) The state of rising above others; a projection.
    • (Evelyn)
    (Boyle)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) The state of being extant; existence.
    • (Webster 1913)