单词 | non-being |
释义 | non-beingn. 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. 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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