being

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of be

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)That which has actuality (materially or in concept).
4. (countable, uncountable)One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality.
5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)An abode; a cottage.

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

conj

1. Given that; since.

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