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outcoming en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From out- + coming.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) That comes out.

Antonyms

incoming

Relateds

outgoing

outcoming en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Middle English outcoming, outcominge, from outcomen (“to come out”).

Meanings

1. (dated) A result or outcome.
   • 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. 1861, George Alcock Macdonnell, Man's life and destiny:
2. The act of coming out of a place.
   • How often, as a child, had Kitty, lying in the grass, watched their outcomings and ingoings! 1877, Eugenie Marlitt, At the Councillors, Or, A Nameless History, page 191:

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