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▪ I. unˈbeing, vbl. n.
[un-1 13.]
Absence or lack of being; non-existence.
1435Misyn Fire of Love 84 To deed hastand & to vnbeingis to mevingis of fleschly affeccions. 1587Golding De Mornay ii. (1592) 22 A tending to the vtter vnbeing or not being of the whole. Ibid. 23 Which matter they termed the verie vnbeing, that is to saye, in verie troth no being at all. 1935G. Barker Janus 16 The lighter bird of being, obstructing my line of sight, entirely conceals the form of the bird of unbeing. 1936T. S. Eliot Coll. Poems 1909–35 191 Love is itself unmoving... Caught in the form of limitation Between un-being and being. 1944L. MacNeice Springboard 17 From the lubber depths of my unbeing.
▪ II. † unˈbeing, ppl. a. Obs.
[un-1 10.]
Non-existent.
1607J. Davies (Heref.) Summa Totalis Wks. (Grosart) I. 23/1 Those Things haue euer an vnbeing Beeing Which in his Vnderstanding onely Bee. a1631Donne Ess. Divinity (1651) 130 All [those] now eminent and in actions, and all yet undiscovered, and unbeing. 1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. 119 He must answer, who asked it; who understands entities of preordination, and beings yet unbeing. |