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fargoing en · ADJ

Etymology

From far + going.

Meanings

  1. Having significant implications or repercussions.
    • I have no objection to what was said about the speeches in Chronicles except on this one point of view, that my opinions were charged as being linked into something that was much more fargoing. 1878, William Robertson Smith, Answer to the Form of Libel, page 59:
    • […] but even if preference is given to the other possibility, this is still not a fargoing “development” of the law, on the basis of which one would have to postulate the passage of a considerable length of time from the version of Tablet A to that of B. 1988, Reuven Yaron, The Laws of Eshnunna, page 28:

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most fargoing Degree=Sup lexicographic
more fargoing Degree=Cmp lexicographic