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Being vs Besing - What's the difference?

being | besing |

As verbs the difference between being and besing

is that being is present participle of lang=en while besing is to sing of or sing about; celebrate in song or poetry; sing the praises of; praise; laud.

As a noun being

is a living creature.

As a conjunction being

is given that; since.

being

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A living creature.
  • The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Claudius, thou / Wast follower of his fortunes in his being .
  • (philosophy) That which has actuality (materially or in concept).
  • (philosophy) One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality.
  • (obsolete) An abode; a cottage.
  • (Wright)
  • * Steele
  • It was a relief to dismiss them [Sir Roger's servants] into little beings within my manor.

    Derived terms

    * beingdom * beingful * beinghood * beingless * beingness * (noun ) human being

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • (obsolete) Given that; since.
  • *, New York Review Books 2001, p.280:
  • ’Tis a hard matter therefore to confine them, being they are so various and many […].

    Derived terms

    * being that

    References

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    See also

    * am * are * is * art * be * been * beest * was * wast * were * wert

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    besing

    English

    Verb

  • To sing of or sing about; celebrate in song or poetry; sing the praises of; praise; laud.
  • *1728 , William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), John Fletcher, Double falshood :
  • I have read Stories, (I fear, too true ones;) how young Lords, like you, Have thus besung mean Windows, rhymed their Sufferings Ev'n to th' Abuse of Things Divine, set up Plain Girls, like me, the Idols of their Worship, Then left them [...]
  • *1854 , Thomas Carlyle, Burns :
  • Let him dwindle into a modish balladmonger; let him worship and besing the idols of the time, and the time will not fail to reward him.
  • *1972 , Isobel Armstrong, Victorian scrutinies :
  • And in the meanwhile, how can a poet better employ himself (provided he does not confine his subject-matter to the Greeks, who have already besung' themselves far better than we can sing them, and to the Romans, who were ' besung by our Elizabethan poets better than they ever will be sung again), [...]
  • *2001 , Jørgen Bruhn, Jan Lundquist, The novelness of Bakhtin: perspectives and possibilities :
  • [...] Blanckenburg pointed out that one of the differences between the epic and the novel was that the classic epic was a "heroic poem" besinging the "public acts and events", the "actions of the citizen"; [...]
  • To sing to.
  • Derived terms

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