ˈoutˌcoming, vbl. n.
[out- 9.]
† 1. A coming out, issuing forth; concr. a place of issue or emergence. Obs.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 12593 At þe vte-cuming o þe yatte He turnd again. 1375 [see outcome n. 1]. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. lx. (Bodl. MS.) lf. 30/2 A seneuȝe..is naisch atte þe oute comynge and hard fortheward. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VI 107 b, In the plain feld..abidyng the outcommyng and battaile of their enemies. |
2. Event, issue; a result, a product.
| 1382 Wyclif Gen. xli. 13 We herden alle thingis that after⁓ward the outecomyng of the thing proued. 1858 J. Martineau Stud. Chr. 306 They are the separate outcomings of a great life-thrill. 1875 E. White Life in Christ iii. xxii. (1878) 323 No mere outcoming of modern thought. |
3. Emanation.
| 1845 Trench Huls. Lect. Ser. i. i. 9 Him of whom the Scripture is the outcoming and the Word. 1860 ― Serm. Westm. Abb. xi. 115 Our words are the outcoming of our inmost heart. |