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from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no beginning.
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Examples
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By a First Cause we do not, however, understand the first of a numerical series, but an ἀρχή -- a principle, itself unbeginning, which is the source of all beginning.
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THAT music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning -- yet long untaught
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And unmoved within the limits of great bonds/it is unbeginning unending, since generation and destruction/have wandered quite far away, and genuine conviction has expelled them.
Parmenides Palmer, John 2008
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So they walked over the crackling leaves in the garden, between the lines of box breathing its fragrance of eternity; -- for this is one of the odors which carry us out of time into the abysses of the unbeginning past; if we ever lived on another ball of stone than this, it must be that there was box growing on it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various
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Eternal Intelligence, living in an unbeginning and unending Present,
Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Joseph Warschauer
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It was the weird, unending, unbeginning wail of the women, the death-song of the tribe mourning the passing of a chief, the voices of some four hundred squaws blending indescribably.
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It is the entirety of the unbeginning and universal actuality, whose qualities and altitude of faculties are too high to be reached by others.
Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898
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Divine Love indicates distinctly Its own unending and unbeginning, as it were a sort of everlasting circle whirling round in unerring combination, by reason of the Good, from the Good, and in the Good, and to the Good, and ever advancing and remaining and returning in the same and throughout the same.
Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897
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It is of a middle age, unbeginning, interminable, of which she gives you the impression.
Venetian Life William Dean Howells 1878
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But the uniform tendency of all poets and Rishis alike was to seek, beyond all these gods, one unbeginning, unending, and all comprehensive Being, from whom these "devas" emerged, and into whom they must return.
Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern J. Allanson Picton 1871
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