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present participle and gerund of come examples
plural comings
The act of arriving; an arrival. quotations examples
But he found it strange to think […] of all these little things that cluster round the comings, and the stayings, and the goings, that he would know nothing of them, nothing of what they had been, as long as he lived, […]
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press
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Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next. quotations examples
Oh! if you wish that happiness / your coming days and years may bless,
1807, George Gordon Byron, To the Earl of Clare
Newly in fashion; advancing into maturity or achievement. examples
(obsolete) Ready to come; complaisant; fond. quotations
How coming to the poet every muse!
1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]
That he had been so affectionate a husband, was no ill argument to the coming dowager, that he might prove as kind to her.
1697, John Dryden, “Dedication of the Æneis”, in The Works of Virgil