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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
unbeing en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle English unbeing, equivalent to un- + being.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, obsolete) Not in existence, nonexistent.
Beings yet unbeing
c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the section)”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton […]; and Mr. [John] Morphew […], published 1716, →OCLC:
unbeing en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle English unbeing, equivalent to un- + being.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Nonexistence.
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:
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(countable) A nonbeing; an entity of no existence or significance.
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:
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