rare. [UN-1 14.] intr. To lack being; to be non-existent.

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1434.  Misyn, Mending Life, 122. As qwo say: syn in vs may vnrene [= not reign], bot it may not vnbe.

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a. 1795.  Bonnie James Campbell, iv., in Child, Ballads, IV. (1890), 143/2. My house is unbigged, my barn’s unbeen.

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1885.  R. F. Burton, Arab. Nts., IV. 248. This ecstasy would see my being unbe.

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1898.  T. Hardy, Wessex Poems, 182. But for the charge that blessed things I’d liefer have unbe.

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