Beingly
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Of or pertaining to (one's) being or existence.
- 2 Existing; extant.
"Earlier Thomas quotes Proclus in his explanation thus: "All beingly being is infinite, not according to multitude or magnitude, but according to power alone."
- 3 True; real; essential; actual.
"Doesn't this question point to an experience similar to that Plato must have had in obsessively asking what the essence ("ousia"), the "truth," "the true being" or "the beingly being" of things was?"
Example
More examples"Earlier Thomas quotes Proclus in his explanation thus: "All beingly being is infinite, not according to multitude or magnitude, but according to power alone."
Etymology
From being + -ly.
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