Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To deprive of essence or distinctive characteristics.

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Examples

  • 'What happens geschieht is the history of being' (NIV, 243), but the 'history of beyng knows rare Ereignisse at long intervals which are for it only moments', events such as 'the assignment of truth to beyng, the collapse of truth, the consolidation of its unessence (correctness)', etc.

    Archive 2007-06-01 enowning 2007

  • 'What happens geschieht is the history of being' (NIV, 243), but the 'history of beyng knows rare Ereignisse at long intervals which are for it only moments', events such as 'the assignment of truth to beyng, the collapse of truth, the consolidation of its unessence (correctness)', etc.

    enowning enowning 2007

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