instealing

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adjective

entering or manifesting surreptitiously

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Meanings

adjective
  1. entering or manifesting surreptitiously

    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 Apocalyptic Chart, and Engravings from Medals and Other Extant Monuments of Antiquity, page 267
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    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

Origin

From in + steal (“sneak”) + -ing.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

instealing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/instealing

MLA

“instealing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/instealing. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “instealing,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/instealing.

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