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nonextant

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ex⋅tant

  [ek-stuhnt, ik-stant]
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–adjective
1. in existence; still existing; not destroyed or lost: There are only three extant copies of the document.
2. Archaic. standing out; protruding.
Origin:
1535–45; < L ex(s)tant- (s. of ex(s)tāns) standing out, prp. of exstāre, equiv. to ex- ex- 1 + stāre to stand
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extant 
1545, "standing out above a surface," from L. extantem, prp. of extare "stand out, be visible, exist," from ex- "out" + stare "to stand," from PIE base *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Sense of "in existence" appeared in Eng. 1561.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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