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instealing

instealing adjective: entering or manifesting surreptitiously.

Adjective

instealing

  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, ...1860, B. P, Alice: and other poems, by B.P., page 263
    • Here will appear the Lord's own antidote against the instealing apostacy.1847, Edward Bishop Elliott, Horæ Apocalypticæ: Or, A Commentary on the Apocalypse, Critical and Historical : Including Also an Examination of the Chief Prophecies of Daniel : Illustrated by an...

Origin of instealing

From in + steal (“sneak”) + -ing.

Questions about instealing

What does instealing mean?
Instealing means entering or manifesting surreptitiously.
What part of speech is instealing?
Instealing is an adjective.

Words near instealing in the dictionary

  1. Instaverse
  2. Instaworthy
  3. instead
  4. instead of
  5. insteada
  6. instealing
  7. insteep
  8. insteeped
  9. insteeping
  10. insteeps
  11. instellation

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