单词 | homegoing |
释义 | homegoingn. Originally Scottish. 1. The action of returning to one's home, household, or native land; a return home. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [noun] > going home homegoingc1650 c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 140 This committe..wold cum and viseit thair college in thair hame going. 1849 M. Oliphant Margaret Maitland xxii The sorting of my things for our homegoing. 1877 Argosy May 348 There were no home-goings for Oscar, he was too far away. It saddened me at vacation time to see his efforts to hide his homesickness. 1937 J. Joyce Let. 1 Nov. (1966) III. 408 We are sorry to hear you had such a stormy homegoing. 1940 N. J. Eastman Expectant Motherhood vii. 104 A home-going outfit will be required, of course. 1996 Callaloo 19 264 He was walking after work, deferring the homegoing, stabbing the ground as he went with his stick. 2. In religious use: one's death; a funeral. Cf. to go home at home adv. 1d. Now chiefly U.S., esp. in African-American use. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] hensithOE qualmOE bale-sithea1000 endingc1000 fallOE forthsitheOE soulingOE life's endOE deathOE hethensithc1200 last end?c1225 forthfarec1275 dying1297 finec1300 partingc1300 endc1305 deceasec1330 departc1330 starving1340 passingc1350 latter enda1382 obita1382 perishingc1384 carrion1387 departing1388 finishmentc1400 trespassement14.. passing forthc1410 sesse1417 cess1419 fininga1425 resolutiona1425 departisona1450 passagea1450 departmentc1450 consummation?a1475 dormition1483 debt to (also of) naturea1513 dissolutionc1522 expirationa1530 funeral?a1534 change1543 departure1558 last change1574 transmigration1576 dissolving1577 shaking of the sheets?1577 departance1579 deceasure1580 mortality1582 deceasing1591 waftage1592 launching1599 quietus1603 doom1609 expire1612 expiring1612 period1613 defunctiona1616 Lethea1616 fail1623 dismissiona1631 set1635 passa1645 disanimation1646 suffering1651 abition1656 Passovera1662 latter (last) end1670 finis1682 exitus1706 perch1722 demission1735 demise1753 translation1760 transit1764 dropping1768 expiry1790 departal1823 finish1826 homegoing1866 the last (also final, great) round-up1879 snuffing1922 fade-out1924 thirty1929 appointment in Samarra1934 dirt nap1981 big chill1987 1866 W. Landels Sepulchre in Garden ii. 40 Our home-going can neither anticipate His purpose, nor take Him by surprise. a1867 A. Crichton Let. in W. G. Blaikie Memorials Rev. A. Crichton (1868) 54 The time of my home-going draws near. 1900 C. Hanbury Let. 5 Aug. in Autobiogr. (1901) xv. 224 When the Home-going is, I want to say with more than common emphasis—‘by desire’—no flowers; also no bell tolling. 1976 Jet 29 Apr. 27/1 Ms. Spencer had her ‘home-going’ services held in the Macedonia Baptist Church. 2002 T. Wells in P. Clairmont et al. Women of Faith Daily Devotional 39 I have attended some sweet homegoings in my life. Family and friends were sad and lonely, of course, but powerfully comforted. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see alsoalso refers to : home-goingadj. < see also |
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