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Webster 1913 Edition
Unbeing
Un-be′ing
,Adj.
Not existing.
[Obs.]
“Beings yet unbeing.” Sir T. Browne.
Webster 1828 Edition
Unbeing
UNBE'ING
,Adj.
Definition 2024
unbeing
unbeing
English
Noun
unbeing (countable and uncountable, plural unbeings)
- (uncountable) nonexistence
- 1997, Migene González-Wippler, What happens after death (page 3)
- What we fear most is not death itself but the prospect of not being, or rather of unbeing, a state where we altogether cease to exist. The idea of unbeing is so alien to us that we find it almost impossible to conceive.
- 1997, Migene González-Wippler, What happens after death (page 3)
- (countable) A nonbeing; an entity of no existence or significance.
- 1987, Hari Mohan Prasad, The Dramatic Art of Eugene O'Neill (page 23)
- The house is pale as though its life-blood were sucked and the Cabots reduced to unbeings.
- 1987, Hari Mohan Prasad, The Dramatic Art of Eugene O'Neill (page 23)
Adjective
unbeing (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Not in existence.
- Beings yet unbeing— Sir Thomas Browne.