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Definition of Beings
1. being [n] - See also: being
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beings
Literary usage of Beings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1909)
"CLASSIFICATION FROM the most remote period in the history of the world organic
beings have been found to resemble each other in descending degrees, ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1848)
"XIII Lectures on the Physical Phenomena of Living beings. ... Living beings are
endowed with the general properties of all natural bodies. ..."
3. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1843)
"... that the door of intercourse is closed between the beings In-low and ...
and no intercourse is opened between the elemental and the heavenly beings, ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"From the moon's orbit to the sphere enclosing the world, extended the region of
beings exempt from generation, change, and death, of perfect, divine beings, ..."
5. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"Sympathy with fellow beings. Such general comments on attention lead to the
treatment of special cases. ... Sympathy extends far beyond one's fellow beings. ..."
6. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1890)
"... the forces of nature have given birth in the innumerable abodes of the sky to
an infinite diversity of beings and substances. The forms of the beings of ..."
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