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in-being, inbeing|ˈɪnˌbiːɪŋ|
[f. in adv. 11 c + being vbl. n.]
1. The fact of being in; existence in something else; inherence, indwelling, immanence.
1617Dayrell On the Church 81 Were it not extreme folly..because of this manner of enterance, to deny the in⁓being of the aforesaid men in the house? 1654Warren Unbelievers 107 'Tis such an union and in-being in Christ. 1776J. Neill 23 Serm. 88 Believing..[consists] in such a reception of them as gives them a real subsistence and in⁓being in the Soul. 1834J. Brown Lett. Sanctific. v. 295 Must not that be pleasant which is, if I may use the expression, a mutual inbeing in God?
2. Inward or essential nature; that which a thing is in itself.
1661W. Annand Panem Quotid. 9 God giving Lawes for the inbeing of the National Church which he was then instituting. 1869Ruskin Q. of Air §135 Men get to know not only their income, but their inbeing—to know themselves..what is in them, and what may be got out of them.
†3. An indwelling being: applied to the ‘persons’ of the Trinity. Obs.
1587Golding De Mornay v. (1617) 53 In the same most single essence are three Persons or In-beings. a1643Suckling Acc. Relig. 115 This cannot be done, but by one of the three Inbeings, which is the word they use to expresse the Trinity by. |