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non-being
[non- 7.]
1. a. The condition of not being; non-existence.
c1449Pecock Repr. ii. xvi. 242 These men..concludiden..that al the bodili heuen..was euer withoute bigynnyng of tyme, and schal euer be withoute corrupcion and withoute noon being. 1645Ball Sphere Gov. 8, I conceive..power..to consist rather in reason positive then negative, in beeing rather then in non-beeing. 1765Harris Three Treat. Notes 267 Contingents..were equally susceptible both of Being and Non-being. 1899M. H. Dziewicki Wyclif's De Logica iii. p. xxxv, Whether the non-being of the world preceded its being.
b. A non-existent thing.
1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 25 Of a non-Being, no conception, no figure, and no understanding, doth answer. 1793T. Taylor Sallust, etc. xvii. 83 It is impossible that any thing can be generated from non-beings.
†2. Not being present. Obs.
1455Rolls of Parlt. V. 335/2 For his nounbeyng at this your present Parlement. |