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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 457 (MED) Þe occasioun of his comynge [L. adventus] into Engelond was suche.

1448 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) i. 54 Our comynge haste to London.

1533 T. Elyot Of Knowl. Wise Man v. f. 94 My comming into Sicile, was nat to serue kinge Dionise..but onely to augmente wisedome by addition of knowledge.

1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. Ep. Ded., in R. Holinshed Chron. I The..extraordinary comming by sundrie treatizes not supposed to be extaunt.

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης i. 2 At his comming to the Crown.

1677 A. Marvell Acct. Growth Popery 133 To wait for their coming from Madrid would make Church-work, whereas we need the swiftest expedition.

1732 J. Horsley Britannia Romana ii. iii. 322 Geta..is called Caesar only in some Brito-Roman inscriptions, even after his coming into Britain.

1781 T. Holcroft Duplicity ii. i. 22 My gracious!——What zignifications my coming to London zity, an' I must be moped up a this'n; I will go, zo I will.

1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen xviii. 287 My coming from an infected city did not occasion him the least uneasiness.

1897 J. G. Bourinot Canada xxi. 291 This event was the coming to the provinces of many thousand people, known as United Empire Loyalists.

1921 N.Y. Times 10 Jan. 3/4 They are ignorant here of the purpose of my coming to Germany, but seek evidence at all cost.

1964 Jrnl. Near Eastern Stud. 23 77/1 We must not overlook one of the most important events in the geohistory of Egypt—the coming into being of the Red Sea.

2000 K. Sesay in C. Newland & K. Sesay IC3 Introd. p. xiii Some people see the coming to England en masse as immigration, others as migration.