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non-extant


adjective

  1. in existence; still existing; not destroyed or lost: There are only three extant copies of the document.
  2. Archaic. standing out; protruding.

adjective

  1. still in existence; surviving
  2. archaic standing out; protruding

adj.1540s, “standing out above a surface,” from Latin extantem (nominative extans), present participle of extare “stand out, be visible, exist,” from ex- “out” (see ex-) + stare “to stand,” from PIE root *sta- “to stand” (see stet). Sense of “in existence” attested in English by 1560s.

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