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▪ I. ˈdown-coming, vbl. n.
A coming down, descent (lit. and fig.): = downcome n. 1.
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 5271 At his doun commyng. 1676W. Row Contn. Blair's Autobiog. xii. (1848) 400 Before the bishops' downcoming. 1883Besant All in Garden Fair ii. vi, A sad downcoming of his lofty aims.
▪ II. ˈdown-coming, ppl. a.
Coming down or onwards.
1851H. Melville Moby Dick III. xlix. 308 Starbuck and Stubb, standing upon the bowsprit beneath, caught sight of the down-coming monster. 1865Harper's Mag. July 167/2 They..reached a spot where they passed the downcoming train in safety. 1922Joyce Ulysses 427 He disappears into Olhousen's the pork butcher's, under the downcoming rollshutter. 1952L. MacNeice Ten Burnt Offerings 50 Dust of down-coming houses. 1968G. M. B. Dobson Explor. Atmos. (ed. 2) v. 107 The intensity of the down-coming, cosmic radiation increases with height. |