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English
Etymology
From in + steal (“sneak”) + -ing.
Adjective
instealing
- entering or manifesting surreptitiously
- 1860, B. P, Alice: and other poems, by B.P., page 263:
- Of promise; and, (of both these blessings born / And nurtured), a sweet sense of present healing, / Through sootheful nerve and fibre soft instealing, ...
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:Here will appear the Lord's own antidote against the instealing apostacy.