Instealing

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 1
    entering or manifesting surreptitiously

    "Of promise; and, (of both these blessings born / And nurtured), a sweet sense of present healing, / Through sootheful nerve and fibre soft instealing, ..."

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"Of promise; and, (of both these blessings born / And nurtured), a sweet sense of present healing, / Through sootheful nerve and fibre soft instealing, ..."

Etymology

From in + steal (“sneak”) + -ing.

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