ADJECTIVE
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no longer existing or inaccessible through loss or destruction
its nonextant original was written on vellum -
no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives
extinct laws and customs
an extinct royal family
an extinct species of fish
How To Use nonextant In A Sentence
- Revolutions are not born to enjoy what has been done; revolutions are waged to create what is nonextant. 26 JULY ANNIVERSARY
- its nonextant original was written on vellum
- Reconstructing the nonextant plate text, like recovering manuscript or fair copy, aims at capturing the historical moment of first creation, but it resulted in abstractions of the kind Bob referred to as the "work" level, because the excavations cannot be verified and the methods deducing them are suspect. Introduction