outcoming
English
editEtymology 1
editAdjective
editoutcoming (not comparable)
Antonyms
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editEtymology 2
editFrom Middle English outcoming, outcominge, from outcomen (“to come out”).
Noun
editoutcoming (plural outcomings)
- (dated) A result or outcome.
- 1861, George Alcock Macdonnell, Man's life and destiny:
- But perhaps you will say, even actual transgressors ought not to be considered guilty, or be punished, inasmuch as their sins are the necessary outcomings of an inherited, corrupt nature.
- The act of coming out of a place.
- 1877, Eugenie Marlitt, At the Councillors, Or, A Nameless History, page 191:
- How often, as a child, had Kitty, lying in the grass, watched their outcomings and ingoings!