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instealing

adj

Etymology

From in + steal (“sneak”) + -ing.

  1. derived from *tsel-✻
  2. derived from *stel(H)-✻
  3. derived from *ster-✻
  4. formed as instealing — “in + steal + -ing”

Definitions

  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, ...
    • Here will appear the Lord's own antidote against the instealing apostacy.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for instealing. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA