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not-being, n.
[not adv.]
1. Absence of being; non-existence.
a1586Sidney Arcadia (1622) 265 A base and vilest degree of being, and next to a not-being. 1587Golding De Mornay (1592) 13 Afore the which there went a Not-beeing. 1623Webster Duchess Malfi iv. ii, Did any ceremonial form of law Doom her to not-being? 1683J. Corbet Free Actions i. viii. 6 No more is needful to a Not-being, than Gods not Willing and not Effecting. 1725Watts Logic (1728) 28 As being is divided into substance and mode, so we may consider not-being with regard to both these. 1850Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. (ed. 2) 185 Being had been confounded with truth, Not-being with falsehood. 1871Tylor Prim. Cult. II. 97 He may find in utter dissolution and not-being a refuge even from heaven. 1907J. R. Illingworth Doctrine of Trinity i. 8 We cannot possibly conceive a passage from not-being to being, as the Greeks phrased it,..except through the operation of some energy which is already actual,..and adequate. 1917D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 147 It wounds me to death with my own not-being. 1933C. Dawson Enquiries Relig. & Culture iii. ii. 194 The element of nothingness or not-being which is inherent in the world of sensible experience.
2. A non-existent thing. rare—1.
1725Watts Logic (1736) 27 Then they rank them also under the general Head of Not-Beings.
So not-being a., non-existing. rare—1.
1594J. Dickenson Arisbas (1878) 83 The extremitie of fortunes malice, which seemed to ease me with a shadow of not-being solace. |