instealing
adjEtymology From in + steal (“sneak”) + -ing.
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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 Apocalyptic Chart, and Engravings from Medals and Other Extant Monuments of Antiquity, page 267: