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homegoing en · NOUN

Etymology

From home + going.

Meanings

1. A voyage or journey home.
   • On reaching the fresh air he was sufficiently unsteady to incline the row of three at one moment as if they were marching to London, and at another as if they were marching to Bath - which produced a comical effect, frequent enough in families on nocturnal homegoings; and, like most comical effects, not quite so comic after all. 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 47:
2. An African-American Christian funeral rite marking the going home of the deceased to the Lord or to Heaven.

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