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▪ I. on-going, n.|ˈɒnˌgəʊɪŋ|
[on-1 4.]
1. pl. = Goings-on (see going vbl. n. 5 c); proceedings, doings (esp. of a notable kind).
1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Ongoings, conduct, doings, merriment. 1828Blackw. Mag. XXIII. 362 The inner on-goings, beneath what, to our imaginations is a hallowed roof. 1856Masson Ess. iii. 57 [Milton] had to describe the ongoings of angels. 1894Crockett Raiders 151 It breaks my heart to hear you upholding such ongoings.
2. sing. The action of going on; proceeding, process, continued movement or action.
1860F. W. Faber Precious Blood iii. 107 Not only is the continuous preservation of all things..an almost illimitable extension and ongoing of creation, but new souls of men are literally created out of nothing every moment of time. 1880W. M. Thomson Land & Bk. 2 The long ongoing and outworking of the Mosaic Economy. 1890Pall Mall G. 28 June 4/2 The reposeful grounds..were never more than half full, and everyone had an air of restless ongoing. 1890Chicago Advance 18 Sept., The stream of tendency in the ongoing of God's spirit and providence. 1962Listener 11 Oct. 559/1 Experiment must be analytical and predictive in its actual on-going. 1977Times 11 Apr. 5/7 The logical conclusion of a process long in the ongoing.
▪ II. ˈon-ˌgoing, a.
Also ongoing.
Going on: see go v. 86. Also, continuing, continuous; that is in progress; current; proceeding, or developing. Hence ˈon-ˌgoingness.
1877J. Blackwood Let. 15 Oct. in Geo. Eliot Lett. (1956) VI. 405 This edition..will be a steady on-going thing, a capital leading franchise in the business. 1882in Ogilvie. 1937[see integration 1 b]. 1949M. Mead Male & Female xvi. 336 American women have become..less willing to be merely part of some on-going operation. 1951V. Barclay Challenge to Darwinians vi. 60 Bergson..held that an ongoing movement issued from that creative act. 1951E. C. Tolman in Parsons & Shils Toward Gen. Theory Action iii. 352 What..would be the necessary conditions for the non-disintegration, the on-goingness, of a personality system? 1953Scottish Jrnl. Theol. VI. 211 Within the time of this on-going age there would be a thousand years of political triumph for the Jews. 1954D. Riesman Individualism Reconsidered (1955) xxii. 334 Sufficient time has elapsed since Freud built his system..to permit..critical re-examination of the sort undertaken here... Its aim is..to contribute to the sociology of knowledge and to the ongoing effort. 1957P. Lafitte Person in Psychol. 59 Life..is tense,..as an inescapable consequence of its being rich, varied, ongoing, and creative. 1959P. Wheelwright Heraclitus iii. 38 For Heraclitus the most basic ontological fact is the ongoingness of things. 1960in L. Pincus Marriage 8 The worker's capacity to learn from his on-going cases. Ibid. i. 16 This pattern of interaction can be understood only in the context on an on-going process. 1961R. Kee Refugee World vii. 73 The refugee problem in our time is an on-going problem. 1967G. Wills in Wills & Yearsley Handbk. Managem. Technol. 179 Time, in an on-going marketing situation, costs money. 1972P. Laslett Household & Family in Past Time 68 The danger of mistaking a set of coincidences for an ongoing institution. 1973Guardian 13 Oct. 2/3 We have an on-going military relationship which we are continuing. 1974Times 1 May 6/8 The President assigned the responsibility for the on-going investigation to Mr. Petersen. 1976Publishers Weekly 16 Feb. 85/1 The ongoing polemic about the role of the atelier artist versus his university-based colleague. 1977Gay News 24 Mar. 13/1 Dozens of other special relationships hold the potential of working well and of maintaining the symbiosis of ongoingness. |