† gaincomen.
Obsolete.
A coming again, return.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [noun]
gaincome?c1225
retourc1330
gaincominga1340
again-cominga1382
returna1393
again-racea1400
returning?c1400
resortc1425
turningc1440
revertence?1457
repairingc1460
again-goinga1475
regress1478
revenuea1500
reversiona1500
back-coming1535
retire?1538
back-return1577
redition1595
regredience1648
reverter1663
epistrophe1814
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 172 Þet þu his ȝeincume underuo þe gledluker.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19043 Þe apostels ilk dai Went to þe temple for to prai, At þair gain come [c1460 Laud yene come] mete þai gaue.
a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 55 in Poems (1981) 112 Bot quhen he saw passit baith day and hour Of hir ganecome.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 2026 Full glad of þat gest and his gayne come.
1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. 28v And I (to further this my woe) thy gainecome did desyre.
Derivatives
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [noun]
gaincome?c1225
retourc1330
gaincominga1340
again-cominga1382
returna1393
again-racea1400
returning?c1400
resortc1425
turningc1440
revertence?1457
repairingc1460
again-goinga1475
regress1478
revenuea1500
reversiona1500
back-coming1535
retire?1538
back-return1577
redition1595
regredience1648
reverter1663
epistrophe1814
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cxi. 9 He losis hope of gayn~cumynge.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 453 Sa dred yai sar ye gayne-cummyng Off Schyr Robert ye douchty king.
1565 Answ. Kirk in Keith Hist. Ch. Scot. (1734) 550 To the gaynecomeing of our Lord Jesus Chryst.
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