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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
extense en · ADJ
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin extensus.
Meanings
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(obsolete) Outreaching; expansive; extended, superficially or otherwise.
Forms
extense en · NOUN
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin extensus.
Meanings
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(obsolete) extent; expanse
[…] for God is not extended, but yet is every where in all Extense […]
1795, Emanuel Swedenborg, True Christian Religion:Nor canst thou cleave the crystal heaven
To gather joys from thence;
As fits thy life to thee is given
The ocean's drear extense.
1859, Thomas Lake Harris, The Herald of Light, volume 4, page 185:
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