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Definition of Come into being
1. Verb. Be born or come into existence. "All these flowers come to life when the rains come"
Definition of Come into being
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To form; to start to exist. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Come Into Being
Literary usage of Come into being
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spirit of Prayer, Or, The Soul Rising Out of the Vanity of Time Into the by William Law (1752)
"... to be $ for St. Paul's Doctrine is, that all things come into Being, out of
God, in the fame Reality, as the Woman was formed or created out of Man. ..."
2. The History of Herodotus by Herodotus, George Campbell Macaulay (1904)
"If then at the first there was no land for them to live in, why' did they waste
their labour Jto prove that they had come into being before all other men ? ..."
3. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"For, if it had come into being, there needs must have been nothing before it came
into being. ... Since, then, it has not come into being, and since it is, ..."
4. The First Philosophers of Greece: An Edition and Translation of the by Arthur Fairbanks (1898)
"And if anything is, either •it has come into being, or else it always has been.
If it came into being, it sprung either from being or from not-being; ..."
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