being

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of bepresent participle and gerund of be

noun

1. 1

   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 a nameless terror, till the perspiration stood in beads upon my brow.

2. 2

   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.

   The written word, he often argued, could only ever be a low-fidelity reproduction of the fullness of being; any text was ultimately humbled by the reality that it sought to represent.

3. 3

   That which has actuality (materially or in concept).

4. 4

   One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality.

5. 5

   obsoleteAn abode; a cottage.

   It was a relief to dismiss them [Sir Roger's servants] into little beings within my manor.

conjunction

1. 1

   Given that; since.

   ’Tis a hard matter therefore to confine them, being they are so various and many […].

Forms

plural

beings