State: a condition or way of being that exists at a particular time. I saw this definition of state in Cambridge dictionary. Which sense of the preposition of is used in the phrase "way of being"?
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" —used as a function word to indicate a particular example belonging to the class denoted by the preceding noun // the city of Rome" ( https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/of )