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present participle and gerund of go examples
(in combination) Attending or visiting (a stated event, place, etc.) habitually or regularly. examples
countable and uncountable, plural goings
A departure. quotations examples
Māna-Yood-Sushāī was before the beginning of the gods, and shall be after their going. […] After the going of the gods there will be no small worlds nor big.
1905, [Edward Plunkett,] Lord Dunsany, The Gods of Pegāna, London: Elkin Mathews, […]
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
The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc. examples
Progress. examples
(figurative) Conditions for advancing in any way. examples
(in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways. quotations examples
His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Job 34:21
(in the phrase "the going of") The whereabouts (of something). examples
The horizontal distance between the front of one step in a flight of stairs and the front of the next. examples
not comparable
Likely to continue; viable. examples
Current, prevailing. examples
(especially after a noun phrase with a superlative) Available. quotations examples
Craig: Did you look at Tudor life? did you do a lot of studying about that?Natalie: Yeah, I was really geeky about it, I read every single book that was going.
2013, Natalie Dormer, interview on, The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson