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Etymology

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Originated 1250–1300 fromMiddle Englishbeing; seebe +-ing.

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being

  1. presentparticiple andgerund ofbe

Noun

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being (countable anduncountable,pluralbeings)

  1. A livingcreature.
  2. The state or fact ofexistence,consciousness, orlife, or something in such a state.
    • 1608-1634,John Webster (and perhapsThomas Heywood),Appius and Virginia
      Claudius, thou / Wast follower of his fortunes in hisbeing.
    • 1953,Samuel Beckett,Watt,[Paris]:Olympia Press,→OCLC:
      For the service to be considered was not the service of one servant, but of two servants, and even of three servants, and even of an infinity of servants, of whom the first could not out till the second up, nor the second up till the third in, nor the third in till the first out, nor the first out till the third in, nor the third in till the second up, nor the second up till the first out, every going, everybeing, every coming consisting with abeing and a coming, a coming and a going, a going and abeing, nay with all thebeings and all the comings, with all the comings and all the goings, with all the goings and all thebeings, of all the servants that had ever served Mr. Knott, of all the servants that ever would serve Mr. Knott.
    • 2019 November 12, Gal Koplewitz, “Amos Oz and the Politics of the Hebrew Language”, inThe New Yorker‎[1]:
      The written word, he often argued, could only ever be a low-fidelity reproduction of the fullness ofbeing; any text was ultimately humbled by the reality that it sought to represent.
  3. (philosophy) That which hasactuality (materially or inconcept).
  4. (philosophy) One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof;essence orpersonality.
  5. (obsolete) Anabode; acottage.

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a living creature
the state or fact of existence
basic nature

Conjunction

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being

  1. Given that;since.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym;Robert Burton],The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps,→OCLC:
      , New York Review Books 2001, p.280:
      ’Tis a hard matter therefore to confine them,being they are so various and many […].

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Noun

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being f (dative singularbeingorbeingidh,genitive singularbeinge,pluralbeingean)

  1. bench,form

Declension

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Declension ofbeing (class IIb feminine noun)
indefinite
singularplural
nominativebeingbeingean
genitivebeingebheingean
dativebeingbeingean;beingibh✝
definite
singularplural
nominative(a')bheing(na)beingean
genitive(na)beinge(nam)beingean
dative(a')bheing(na)beingean;beingibh✝
vocativebheingbheingean

✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

  • Alternative dative singular:beingidh(Uist, Barra)
  • Alternative genitive singular:beingeadh(Uist, Barra)
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