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omnipresence|ɒmnɪˈprɛzəns|
[f. as next: see -ence.]
The fact or quality of being omnipresent. a. strictly, as an attribute of God, etc.: see omnipresent a.
1601Deacon & Walker Spirits & Divels 89 An omnipresence, or..an incorporeity, is truely in God. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iv. 288 Next to God's Eternitie follows his Immensitie or Omnipresence, which denotes his presence in althings and al spaces. 1725Watts Logic ii. iv. §2 Questions which may be raised about his own Divine Essence or Substance, his Immensity or Omnipresence. 1885L. Abbott in Chr. World Pulpit XXVIII. 179 Most Christians do not believe in the omnipresence of God; they only believe in His ubiquity.
b. generally: see omnipresent b.
a1822Shelley Tri. Life 343 The bright omnipresence Of morning through the orient cavern flowed. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola i. ix, The omnipresence of casualties..threatened all projects with futility. 1899Westm. Gaz. 9 Aug. 3/2 The most vivid impression to which the foreigner is subjected [in England] is..that of the omnipresence of advertising. |
