Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to presence
Participle: presenced
Gerund: presencing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | presence |
| you | presence |
| he;she;it | presences |
| we | presence |
| you | presence |
| they | presence |
Perfect
| I | have presenced |
| you | have presenced |
| he;she;it | has presenced |
| we | have presenced |
| you | have presenced |
| they | have presenced |
Past
| I | presenced |
| you | presenced |
| he;she;it | presenced |
| we | presenced |
| you | presenced |
| they | presenced |
Pluperfect
| I | had presenced |
| you | had presenced |
| he;she;it | had presenced |
| we | had presenced |
| you | had presenced |
| they | had presenced |
Future
| I | will presence |
| you | will presence |
| he;she;it | will presence |
| we | will presence |
| you | will presence |
| they | will presence |
Future Perfect
| I | will have presenced |
| you | will have presenced |
| he;she;it | will have presenced |
| we | will have presenced |
| you | will have presenced |
| they | will have presenced |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | presence |
| you | presence |
| he;she;it | presence |
| we | presence |
| you | presence |
| they | presence |
Perfect
| I | have presenced |
| you | have presenced |
| he;she;it | have presenced |
| we | have presenced |
| you | have presenced |
| they | have presenced |
Imperfect
| I | presenced |
| you | presenced |
| he;she;it | presenced |
| we | presenced |
| you | presenced |
| they | presenced |
Pluperfect
| I | had presenced |
| you | had presenced |
| he;she;it | had presenced |
| we | had presenced |
| you | had presenced |
| they | had presenced |
Conditional
Present
| I | would presence |
| you | would presence |
| he;she;it | would presence |
| we | would presence |
| you | would presence |
| they | would presence |
Perfect
| I | would have presenced |
| you | would have presenced |
| he;she;it | would have presenced |
| we | would have presenced |
| you | would have presenced |
| they | would have presenced |
Imperative
| you | presence |
| we | Let's presence |
| you | presence |
Verbs conjugated like 'presence'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'presence'
credence,
prepense,
present,
preserve,
preslice,
prevene,
refence,
creance,
defence,
essence,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Through Old French presence, from Latin praesentia (“a being present”), from praesentem. Displaced native Old English andweardnes.
Sample Sentences
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Presence means: the constant abiding that approaches man, reaches him, is extended to him. But what is this source of this extending reach to which the present belongs as presencing, insofar as there is presence? True, man always remains approached by the presencing of something actually present without explicitly heeding presencing itself. [1972, Joan Stambaugh, Time and being (lecture), translation of original by Martin Heidegger, page 13:]
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Within a completely neutral horizon, the primordial continuous stream of experience is presenced without interruption. As this time, the past and future have no meaning apart from the now in which they are presenced. [1985, David Edward Shaner, The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism: A Phenomenological Study of Kūkai and Dōgen, page 59:]
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Just as the bread and butter can be presenced as more than just the bread and the butter, so baking a loaf of bread can be more than just the baking, the baker, and the bread. [1998, H. Peter Steeves, Founding Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry, page 59:]
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2005, James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry, Stanford University Press, →ISBN (paperback), page 118,
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From the overtaxing of the regime's paranoiac classifications and monitoring of the social field, Heidegger was to await in vain the presencing of that which is present, the revelation of the Being of beings in its precedence to governmental control.
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Benner (1984) captures the essence of this when she describes presencing as the art of 'being with' a person without the need to be 'doing to' the person. [2011, Brendan McCormack, Tanya McCance, Person-centred Nursing: Theory and Practice:]