existing
Speech parts
1. existing - Adjective
2. existing - Verb
4. existing - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of Exist
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Examples
Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory is not evil, but vainglory is. Indeed, there is no evil in existing things, but only in their misuse.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.