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[ noun ] the state or fact of existing
Examples : "a point of view gradually coming into being" "laws in existence for centuries" Used in print (The Providence Journal...), and Berman sifted_out all alone on the stage with the ambling chords and beat of the song just whispering into being . (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)Man has the experience of being helpfully allied_with what he cannot fully understand ; he is a coordinate part of all_of the mysterious energy and being and movement . He is not lost in the abyss of endless time ; he has endless being . (Brand Blanshard, "The Emotive Theory," Robert...)If goodness and badness lie_in attitudes only and hence are brought into being by them , those men who greeted death and misery with childishly merry laughter are taking the only sensible line . (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)Sensing the unseen presence of the other men in the patrol , he felt mutely united to these nine near strangers sharing this pinpoint of being with him . |
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[ noun ] a living (or once living) entity that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
Synonyms Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)A teenage girl , Abigail_Williams , is being sharply questioned by her minister uncle , the Reverend_Samuel_Parris , about a wild night affair in the woods in which she and some other girls had seemed to have had contact with these evil beings . (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)There are some passages in the writings of Irenaeus where the image of God and the similitude are sharply distinguished , so most notably in the statement : `` If the [ Holy ] Spirit is absent from the soul , such a man is indeed of an animal nature ; and , being left carnal , he will be an imperfect being , possessing the image [ of God ] in his formation , but not receiving the similitude [ of God ] through the Spirit '' . (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)They were poems in a strange language , of which he could barely touch a meaning - enough to make his being ache with the desire for the fullness he sensed there . (Philip Jos‚ Farmer, The Lovers....)`` That it had found a planet on which human_beings could live and which was already inhabited by sentient beings '' ! said Hal , forgetting in his enthusiasm that he had not been asked to speak . Related terms object entity person plant animal cell individual microorganism life parasite host relative mutant zooid animalcule amphidiploid heterotroph biont sitter anaerobe katharobe nonvascular_organism polymorph atavist saprophyte stander mascot nekton plankton utterer relict denizen heteroploid conspecific haploid aerobe benthos saprobe diploid hybrid commensal polyploid prokaryote clone eukaryote myrmecophile cell body_part tissue young stratum viability parthenote organic_chemistry zygote actinal morphogenesis metabolism bioluminescent be |
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