coming outn.

Brit.

/ˌkʌmɪŋ ˈaʊt/, U.S.

/ˌkəmɪŋ ˈaʊt/

Inflections: Plural comings out, coming outs.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: coming n., out adv.

Etymology: < coming n. + out adv.: in sense 2 after to come out 8c at come v. Phrasal verbs 1; in sense 3b after to come out 13b at come v. Phrasal verbs 1. Compare outcoming n.

1. Movement or transfer from being inside a place or state to being outside it; emergence or development from a hidden to a visible stage. Formerly also concrete: †the passage out of a place (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > from concealment, confinement, or obscurity

coming out?c1425

breaking-out1552

emergency1647

emergence1755

emerging1813

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [noun] > appearing or becoming visible > of heavenly body

coming out?c1425

emersion1633

emergencea1727

emergency1763

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 500 (MED) It is most couenable to þe comynge oute of þe intestynes, þe whiche ben harde to be redressede.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 18 The long tyme of Adamys comyng out of Paradijs into the tyme..of Abraham.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 181 To shewe by their comming out, a greate desire to be gone.

a1605 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Stowe (2)) l. 18059 Lyke a wyle in a ryver, to cache the fysche bothe fer and nere; the entre large, the comynge out is so strayt, it stant in dout.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §140 All concaves that proceed from more narrow to more broad do Amplify the sound at the Coming out.

1653 Mercurius Democritus No. 80. 629 Charged with granadoes to wait for the coming out of our Fleet.

1712 tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Wks. II. 112 The Hours of the Day were dated by the Time, when the Magistrates enter'd into Council, by that of their staying there and that of their coming out.

1762 T. Mortimer Every Man his own Broker (ed. 5) 108 I would farther recommend to you, by no means to lend your subscription, at the time of the coming out of the receipts:..for they [sc. the Bears] borrow your Scrip to make good their illegal..bargains.

1779 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 69 278 All canes have not arrows, and the coming out of an arrow depends on the season, and not on the age of the cane.

1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 403 About the middle of this month [sc. July] the hop..begins to put forth bloom, which is called ‘coming out into bur’.

1899 E. O. Kirk Dorothy & her Friends vi. 112 My pinies are a little bit late about coming out, but when they do bust out, they bust out amazing.

1909 Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. 4 18 The advanced stages of the incomplete anesthesia, of ‘going under’, and of ‘coming out’, from total unconsciousness, disclose in all likelihood..mental phenomena.

1978 Audubon Mar. 89/1 Late in the spring, when the leaves are on the point of coming out.

2013 K. D. Stephens Meaning of these Days xii. 54 The coming out of stars in the evening.

2. The process of formally entering society (society n. 7c) as a young woman; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > [noun] > entering into society

coming out1814

1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park II. ix. 202 Miss Price had not been brought up to the trade of coming out .

1883 Lady F. H. Coming Out 6 To some, the first year of coming out is a great disappointment; in fact, to many.

1949 ‘J. Tey’ Brat Farrar ii. 12 Her aunt..had been responsible for her coming-out.

1999 V. Vida Girls on Verge i. 70 What I'm talking about here is me when I was seventeen,..coming out as a debutante, albeit California style.

a. slang. Among homosexual men and women: the action or fact of becoming socially or sexually active within homosexual circles; the realization that one is homosexual. Now rare except as passing into sense 3b.

ΚΠ

1949 E. W. Burgess in P. H. Hoch & J. Zubin Psychosexual Devel. in Health & Dis. xii. 234 His recognition of himself as a homosexual has a special term in the jargon of this society. It is called ‘coming out’.

1967 Jrnl. Health & Social Behaviour 8 181/2 The phase of homosexuality called ‘coming out’, which is that point in time when there is self-recognition by the individual of his identity as a homosexual and the first major exploration of the homosexual community.

1975 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 21 Nov. 35/7 For Gene, the process of accepting his sexuality, or as gays term it, ‘coming out’ (of the closet) came about only in the fall of 1974.

b. The action or fact of openly acknowledging or declaring one's homosexuality. Also in extended use with reference to other sexual or gender identities.

ΚΠ

1973 C. Isherwood in N.Y. Times 25 Mar. 12/1 The idea of declaring your homosexuality in print seems so wonderfully simple... I don't know why people have doubts about coming out.

1982 R. Littlewood & M. Lipsedge Aliens & Alienists vi. 143 Ethnic redefinition is a reassertion of the values of a disadvantaged or stigmatized group analogous to the women's movement or to ‘coming out’ for the homosexual.

1990 Newsweek 12 Mar. 23/3 Gay leaders all agree that ‘coming out’ is the most important political and personal act anyone can make.

2010 Observer (Nexis) 10 Oct. (Mag.) 42 He had to handle the aftermath of his coming out while playing two rugby seasons back to back.

Compounds

General attributive.

C1. In sense 2, as coming-out ball, coming-out party, etc.

ΚΠ

1846 Columbian Mag. Dec. 267/2 Anna was eighteen, and was going to make her debut and have a grand coming out party.

1903 J. Vaizey Pixie O'Shaughnessy xxiii. 240 Bridgie wore her coming-out dress.

1988 M. Ivins Texas George in Molly Ivins can't say That, can She? (1991) 118 When he lost,..the Veeper blamed it on his supporters being off ‘at their daughters' coming-out parties or teeing off up at the golf course’.

2001 P. Shipman Man who found Missing Link (2002) xl. 278 He will introduce her to scientific society, he thinks whimsically, as if she were a debutante at a coming-out ball.

C2. In sense 3, as coming-out process, coming-out story, etc.

ΚΠ

1961 E. Goffman Asylums 147 It marks a new stand openly taken and supported by the patient, and resembles the ‘coming-out’ process that occurs in other groupings.

1980 Signs 5 800 The absence of a comprehensive, sensitive study of the coming-out process as problematic for women.

1980 Radical Teacher No. 17. 12/1 ‘Coming out’ story by a black lesbian writer.

1992 Cornell Daily Sun (Ithaca, N.Y.) 14 Oct. 5/1 Talk to gay, lesbian or bisexual people about their coming out stories.

2007 Washington Post 29 July (Home ed.) (Book World section) 5/1 Among Other Things, I've taken up Smoking is a coming-out novel about a world we don't quite live in yet.

2013 Time Out N.Y. 8 Aug. 73/1 The form's usual subgenres—the closet-case history, the coming-out drama, the coming-of-AIDS story.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	coming out
释义	coming outn. Brit. /ˌkʌmɪŋ ˈaʊt/, U.S. /ˌkəmɪŋ ˈaʊt/ Inflections: Plural comings out, coming outs. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: coming n., out adv. Etymology: < coming n. + out adv.: in sense 2 after to come out 8c at come v. Phrasal verbs 1; in sense 3b after to come out 13b at come v. Phrasal verbs 1. Compare outcoming n. 1. Movement or transfer from being inside a place or state to being outside it; emergence or development from a hidden to a visible stage. Formerly also concrete: †the passage out of a place (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > from concealment, confinement, or obscurity coming out?c1425 breaking-out1552 emergency1647 emergence1755 emerging1813 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [noun] > appearing or becoming visible > of heavenly body coming out?c1425 emersion1633 emergencea1727 emergency1763 ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 500 (MED) It is most couenable to þe comynge oute of þe intestynes, þe whiche ben harde to be redressede. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 18 The long tyme of Adamys comyng out of Paradijs into the tyme..of Abraham. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 181 To shewe by their comming out, a greate desire to be gone. a1605 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Stowe (2)) l. 18059 Lyke a wyle in a ryver, to cache the fysche bothe fer and nere; the entre large, the comynge out is so strayt, it stant in dout. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §140 All concaves that proceed from more narrow to more broad do Amplify the sound at the Coming out. 1653 Mercurius Democritus No. 80. 629 Charged with granadoes to wait for the coming out of our Fleet. 1712 tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Wks. II. 112 The Hours of the Day were dated by the Time, when the Magistrates enter'd into Council, by that of their staying there and that of their coming out. 1762 T. Mortimer Every Man his own Broker (ed. 5) 108 I would farther recommend to you, by no means to lend your subscription, at the time of the coming out of the receipts:..for they [sc. the Bears] borrow your Scrip to make good their illegal..bargains. 1779 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 69 278 All canes have not arrows, and the coming out of an arrow depends on the season, and not on the age of the cane. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 403 About the middle of this month [sc. July] the hop..begins to put forth bloom, which is called ‘coming out into bur’. 1899 E. O. Kirk Dorothy & her Friends vi. 112 My pinies are a little bit late about coming out, but when they do bust out, they bust out amazing. 1909 Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. 4 18 The advanced stages of the incomplete anesthesia, of ‘going under’, and of ‘coming out’, from total unconsciousness, disclose in all likelihood..mental phenomena. 1978 Audubon Mar. 89/1 Late in the spring, when the leaves are on the point of coming out. 2013 K. D. Stephens Meaning of these Days xii. 54 The coming out of stars in the evening. 2. The process of formally entering society (society n. 7c) as a young woman; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > [noun] > entering into society coming out1814 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park II. ix. 202 Miss Price had not been brought up to the trade of coming out . View more context for this quotation 1883 Lady F. H. Coming Out 6 To some, the first year of coming out is a great disappointment; in fact, to many. 1949 ‘J. Tey’ Brat Farrar ii. 12 Her aunt..had been responsible for her coming-out. 1999 V. Vida Girls on Verge i. 70 What I'm talking about here is me when I was seventeen,..coming out as a debutante, albeit California style. 3. a. slang. Among homosexual men and women: the action or fact of becoming socially or sexually active within homosexual circles; the realization that one is homosexual. Now rare except as passing into sense 3b. ΚΠ 1949 E. W. Burgess in P. H. Hoch & J. Zubin Psychosexual Devel. in Health & Dis. xii. 234 His recognition of himself as a homosexual has a special term in the jargon of this society. It is called ‘coming out’. 1967 Jrnl. Health & Social Behaviour 8 181/2 The phase of homosexuality called ‘coming out’, which is that point in time when there is self-recognition by the individual of his identity as a homosexual and the first major exploration of the homosexual community. 1975 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 21 Nov. 35/7 For Gene, the process of accepting his sexuality, or as gays term it, ‘coming out’ (of the closet) came about only in the fall of 1974. b. The action or fact of openly acknowledging or declaring one's homosexuality. Also in extended use with reference to other sexual or gender identities. ΚΠ 1973 C. Isherwood in N.Y. Times 25 Mar. 12/1 The idea of declaring your homosexuality in print seems so wonderfully simple... I don't know why people have doubts about coming out. 1982 R. Littlewood & M. Lipsedge Aliens & Alienists vi. 143 Ethnic redefinition is a reassertion of the values of a disadvantaged or stigmatized group analogous to the women's movement or to ‘coming out’ for the homosexual. 1990 Newsweek 12 Mar. 23/3 Gay leaders all agree that ‘coming out’ is the most important political and personal act anyone can make. 2010 Observer (Nexis) 10 Oct. (Mag.) 42 He had to handle the aftermath of his coming out while playing two rugby seasons back to back. Compounds General attributive. C1. In sense 2, as coming-out ball, coming-out party, etc. ΚΠ 1846 Columbian Mag. Dec. 267/2 Anna was eighteen, and was going to make her debut and have a grand coming out party. 1903 J. Vaizey Pixie O'Shaughnessy xxiii. 240 Bridgie wore her coming-out dress. 1988 M. Ivins Texas George in Molly Ivins can't say That, can She? (1991) 118 When he lost,..the Veeper blamed it on his supporters being off ‘at their daughters' coming-out parties or teeing off up at the golf course’. 2001 P. Shipman Man who found Missing Link (2002) xl. 278 He will introduce her to scientific society, he thinks whimsically, as if she were a debutante at a coming-out ball. C2. In sense 3, as coming-out process, coming-out story, etc. ΚΠ 1961 E. Goffman Asylums 147 It marks a new stand openly taken and supported by the patient, and resembles the ‘coming-out’ process that occurs in other groupings. 1980 Signs 5 800 The absence of a comprehensive, sensitive study of the coming-out process as problematic for women. 1980 Radical Teacher No. 17. 12/1 ‘Coming out’ story by a black lesbian writer. 1992 Cornell Daily Sun (Ithaca, N.Y.) 14 Oct. 5/1 Talk to gay, lesbian or bisexual people about their coming out stories. 2007 Washington Post 29 July (Home ed.) (Book World section) 5/1 Among Other Things, I've taken up Smoking is a coming-out novel about a world we don't quite live in yet. 2013 Time Out N.Y. 8 Aug. 73/1 The form's usual subgenres—the closet-case history, the coming-out drama, the coming-of-AIDS story. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?c1425
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