to-come

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See also: tocome and to come

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From to +‎ come, perhaps continuing Middle English tocome, from Old English tōcyme (a coming, an arrival, an approach, an advent).

Noun

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to-come (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Something which is to come.
    • 1999, James Risser, Heidegger toward the Turn, page 267:
      They denote a factual to-come. Heidegger, on the other hand, holds that time originates in the to-come, regardless of contents.
    • 2013, Maria-Daniella Dick, Derrida Wordbook, page 416:
      Of a discourse to come – on the to-come and repetition.
  2. (rare) The future.
    • 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hellas, page 49:
      The Past / Now stands before thee like an Incarnation / Of the To-come;
    • 1849 January, Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, “The Literature of Gothic Architecture”, in The Eclectic Review, volume 25, page 37:
      But, it is plain, they would not be competent to grapple with the 'To-come.'
    • 1871 June 1, Charles William Wood, “Of Hope”, in The Argosy, volume 11, number 6, London: J. Ogden & Co., page 429:
      Hope, not only as concerning the future state: that, it is to be trusted, all men possess: but hope as regards the present, and the to-come, of our little narrow world.
    • 1893, Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston, page 464:
      You are the future, the to-come, of the world. I congratulate you, boys and girls, that you live in this generation.
    • 1899, Robert Browning, The Complete Works of Robert Browning, published 1912, page 476:
      With leave to clench the past, chain the to-come,
      Put out an arm and touch and take the sun []
    • 2006, Malcolm Gillies, David Pear, Mark Carroll, Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger, page 122:
      (In the to-come [future], however, I am hoping we will score our toneworks with the full resources of the most lavish orchestra!)
    • 2018, Jim Kanaris, Reconfigurations of Philosophy of Religion: A Possible Future, page 214:
      The to-come, let us say, the “absolute” future, as opposed to the future-present, is the object of our hope and desire, the stuff of a certain faith.

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