"unbe" meaning in English

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      "form": "unbeing",
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          "ref": "1901, Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present, Edinburgh & London: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., page 234:",
          "text": "I cannot bear my fate as writ, / I'd have my life unbe; Would turn my memory to a blot, / Make every relic of me rot, / My doings be as they were not, / And what they've brought to me!",
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          "ref": "1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXXIII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 280:",
          "text": "There is a saying that unseen is as good as unbeen; but in this case it was otherwise—unseen, Master Malrubius was more palpably present than ever before.",
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        "To lack being; to be nonexistent."
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        "(intransitive, rare, poetic) To lack being; to be nonexistent."
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        "To deprive of being; to make nonexistent."
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        "(transitive, rare, poetic) To deprive of being; to make nonexistent."
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      "form": "unbeen",
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        "(intransitive, rare, poetic) To lack being; to be nonexistent."
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