01 n. The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.
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The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.“From the creation to the general doom.” — Shak.“As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had before no being; and this we call creation.” — Locke.
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That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature.“We know that the whole creation groaneth.” — Rom. viii. 22.“A dagger of the mind, a false creation.” — Shak.“Choice pictures and creations of curious art.” — Beaconsfield.
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The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation.“An Irish peer of recent creation.” — Landor.