OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 9907

being

/ˈbiːɪŋ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
criatura • ente • ser
A living creature.
Minute grew into minute, and still there was no sign of life, nor did the curtain move; but I felt the gaze of the unknown being sinking through and through me, and filling me with…
existencia
The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
1608-1634, John Webster (and perhaps Thomas Heywood), Appius and Virginia Claudius, thou / Wast follower of his fortunes in his being.
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 n…
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