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esencia.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
esencia.
Principal English Translation: 

essence; formal existence
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
enseçia
Attestations from sources in English: 

tetatzin tepiltzin dios Espū Sancto çan çce yn iyeliztzin Enseçia = Father, Son, and God the Holy Spirit, of just one essence (Culhuacan, 1580)
Testaments of Culhuacan (provisionally modified first edition), eds. Sarah Cline and Miguel León-Portilla, online version http://www.history.ucsb.edu/cline/testaments_of_culhuacan.pdf, 17.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)