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单词 non-being
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non-beingn.

Brit. /ˌnɒnˈbiːɪŋ/, U.S. /nɑnˈbiɪŋ/
Forms: see non- prefix and being n.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: non- prefix, being n.
Etymology: < non- prefix + being n. Compare French non-être (late 13th cent. in Old French as non estre).
1.
a. The condition of not being; non-existence.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun]
noughtOE
unbeing1435
non-beingc1443
nullity?1573
non esse1585
not-beinga1586
unexistence1593
nihilhood1602
non-essence?1605
inexistence1623
never-being1633
nonentity1643
non-existence1646
no-being1651
inexistency1660
nihility1678
cipherhooda1680
vacuitya1711
nothingness1766
nihilism1856
thinglessness1874
not-ness1933
nullness1949
c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 57 (MED) As grete maistrie it is to kepe, to defende, and to preserue a þing from nouȝt beyng, or noon beyng, which is kyndely fallyng þidirward, as it is to brynge hym forþ from noun beyng if it be not.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 242 (MED) These men..concludiden..that al the bodili heuen..was euer withoute bigynnyng of tyme, and schal euer be withoute corrupcion and withoute noon being.
c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 18 (MED) Þe mater or bodi of a man is not natural cause of mannys soul in beyng..Wherfore þe same mater is not cause of þerof þe natural noun beyng.
1645 W. Ball Tractatus de Jure Regnandi 8 I conceive..power..to consist rather in reason positive then negative, in beeing rather then in non-beeing.
1744 J. Harris Three Treat. Notes 267 Contingents..both of Being and Non-being.
1860 J. Young Province Reason 47 Only through and on account of this undefinedness (unconditionedness) is Being Non-Being.
1899 M. H. Dziewicki Wyclif's De Logica iii. p. xxxv Whether the non-being of the world preceded its being.
1942 A. M. Lindbergh Diary 5 Mar. in War within & Without (1980) 251 This man..believes I am bowing abjectly to an ‘inevitable’ wave of totalitarianism. A coward and a defeatist—part of the world of ‘non-being’ that he rejects. It is too much.
1960 R. D. Laing Divided Self iii. 44 Everyday happenings..may become deeply significant in so far as they either contribute to the sustenance of the individual's being or threaten him with non-being.
1998 Parabola Fall 17/1 This means that beneath the surface of this world..is an abyss of nonbeing—the primordial tzimtzum.
b. A non-existent person or thing.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > that which is non-existent > a thing that does not exist
noughta1425
goat woola1522
goat's wool1550
non-ens1603
nonentity1604
non-existence1646
nothingness1652
non-existent1658
non-being1662
not-being1725
non-existenta1856
1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 25 Of a non-Being, no conception, no figure, and no understanding, doth answer.
1793 T. Taylor tr. Sallust On the Gods xvii. 83 It is impossible that any thing can be generated from non-beings.
1936 Philos. Rev. 45 556 In a sense, both the receptacle and the Good are non-beings; and yet, in another sense, they are real.
1973 Contemp. Sociol. 2 164 Men's need and powers are manifest only in relation to others and nature. Those beings without such relations are unrealities, lifeless, ‘non-beings’.
2000 S. Connor Dumbstruck iii. 101 The devil is the hypostasized form of a non-being, a being that creates out of its very condition of non-being the Being of non-being.
2. Not being present; absence. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > absence > [noun]
absencec1384
non-being1455
wantc1508
absenty1520
lack1548
discontinuance1583
absency1599
negativeness1876
not-thereness1902
1455 Rolls of Parl. V. 335/2 For his nounbeyng at this your present Parlement.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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