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Coexistence   /kˌoʊɪgzˈɪstəns/   Listen
Coexistence

noun
1.
Existing peacefully together.





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"Coexistence" Quotes from Famous Books



... seemed to strike her—phosphoric radiance sprang forth from her eye-balls; and immediately a mighty theatre expanded within her brain. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, every act—every design of her past life lived again—arraying themselves not as a succession, but as parts of a coexistence. Such a light fell upon the whole path of her life backwards into the shades of infancy, as the light perhaps which wrapt the destined apostle on his road to Damascus. Yet that light blinded for a season; but hers ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845 • Various
... could be illustrated by any amount of reliable testimony. And yet it is not the less certain that those same savages practise infanticide; that in some cases they abandon their old people, and that they blindly obey the rules of blood-revenge. We must then explain the coexistence of facts which, to the European mind, seem so contradictory at the first sight. I have just mentioned how the Aleoute father starves for days and weeks, and gives everything eatable to his child; and how the Bushman mother becomes a slave to follow her child; and I might fill ...
— Mutual Aid • P. Kropotkin


Words linked to "Coexistence" :   coexist, being, beingness, coexistent, existence


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