Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without being; nonexistent.
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- adjective Devoid of
being ;nonexistent . - adjective Devoid of
living beings ;uninhabited .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And short books cost nearly the same to produce and deliver as longer works, while beingless welcome in the bookstore.
Bob Moses: The Way We Read Now: The Atavist Finds a Publishing Future in Long-Form Nonfiction Bob Moses 2011
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And short books cost nearly the same to produce and deliver as longer works, while beingless welcome in the bookstore.
Bob Moses: The Way We Read Now: The Atavist Finds a Publishing Future in Long-Form Nonfiction Bob Moses 2011
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Meinong's conception of beingless objects has proved to have useful application in intentional contexts where simple applications of Russell's theory of descriptions do not work.
Salvation Santa 2009
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The objective “The round square does not exist” has being (subsists) although its constituent “the round square” is a beingless object.
Salvation Santa 2009
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You believe in the way human beings talk about the unknowable, reach for the unattainable, pattern their imperfect lives and offer their paltry best up to the beingless being that created the universe and powers its continuation.
A Monstrous Regiment of Women King, Laurie R. 1995
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You believe in the way human beings talk about the unknowable, reach for the unattainable, pattern their imperfect lives and offer their paltry best up to the beingless being that created the universe and powers its continuation.
A Monstrous Regiment of Women King, Laurie R. 1995
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You believe in the way human beings talk about the unknowable, reach for the unattainable, pattern their imperfect lives and offer their paltry best up to the beingless being that created the universe and powers its continuation.
A Monstrous Regiment of Women King, Laurie R. 1995
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From clear, joyous heights of poetic discourse, we looked down, and saw how far off below was her beingless mind.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various
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Never once had it occurred to him to ask how he could be such a fool as enjoy anything false -- beingless save in the brain of the poet -- a mere lie!
Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864
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(even though the objectum in question may be a beingless object) (1910, §20, 135 [101]).
Salvation Santa 2009
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