presentiality

English

Etymology

presential +‎ -ity

Noun

presentiality (uncountable)

(obsolete) presence (the state of being present).
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:
  it is the presentiality of the object which founds the unerring certainty of his knowledge.

References

“presentiality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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