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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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7,250 words match “BEING”

ADVANTAGEOUS a.
Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goe…
ADVENT n.
undays before Christmas. Advent Sunday (Eccl.), the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30). Shipley.
ADVENTUROUSNESS n.
The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.
ADVERBIALITY n.
The quality of being adverbial. Earle.
ADVERSENESS n.
The quality or state of being adverse; opposition.
ADVERTENCE; ADVERTENCY n.
The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness. To this difference it is right that advertence should be had in regulating taxation. J. S. Mill.
ADVISABILITY n.
The quality of being advisable; advisableness.
ADVISABLE-NESS n.
The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability.
AERIALITY n.
The state of being aërial; [R.] De Quincey.
AERIFICATION n. 2 definitions
The act of combining air with another substance, or the state of being filled with air.
AEROGUN n.
A cannon capable of being trained at very high angles for use against aircraft.
AFFABILITY n.
The quality of being affable; readiness to converse; courteousness in receiving others and in conversation; complaisant behavior. Affability is of a wonderful efficacy or power in procuring love. Elyot
AFFECTIBILITY n.
The quality or state of being affectible. [R.]
AFFECTION n.
The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected.
AFFECTIONATENESS n.
The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.
AFFILIABLE a.
Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin.
AFFIRMABLE a.
Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man.
AFFIRMATIVE n.
here were forty votes in the affirmative, and ten in the negative. Whether there are such beings or not, 't is sufficient for my purpose that many have believed the affirmative. Dryden.
AFFIXTURE n.
The act of affixing, or the state of being affixed; attachment.
AFFLICTEDNESS n.
The state of being afflicted; affliction. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
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