LekhoriLekhoripresent participle and gerund of be
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.
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.
That which has actuality (materially or in concept).
Given that; since.
’Tis a hard matter therefore to confine them, being they are so various and many […].
Originated 1250–1300 from Middle English being; see be + -ing.
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