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extant


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Definition:
Still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding.
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Writings that were extant at that time.

Sir M. Hale.
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The extant portraits of this great man.

I. Taylor.
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There are many portraits and miniatures extant of Marguerite St. Just—Lady Blakeney as she was then—but it is doubtful if any of these really do her singular beauty justice.

Emma Orczy. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
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"There are traditions still extant among the people of Slavs of the true faith suffering under the yoke of the ‘unclean sons of Hagar.’ The people have heard of the sufferings of their brethren and have spoken."

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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“we shall have an abstract of the memoirs of all the governesses extant: in order to avert such a visitation, I again move the introduction of a new topic. Mr. Rochester, do you second my motion?”

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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