Meanings
- archaicnot comparableHaving arrived home.
the conqueror, the homecome hero / The soldier, Agamemnon / Bleeds in her conscience
1998, Melanie Boney Williams, John Jacob Niles' John Jacob Niles's Settings of the Early P s Settings of the Early Poetry of Thomas Mer y of Thomas Merton in "The Niles-Merton Songs", Opp. 171 and 1721 more example
Now carol the birds at dawn, and some new lay / Announceth a homecome voyager every day.
2011, Robert Bridges, “The Months: March”, in The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges
- archaicuncountableAn arrival or a return to one's home or native place.
Only ereyesternight had things settled enough so that I begged leave to join my housemates, and maybe I too had been lagging. Happily Lady-Mother gave it, though also with the question I had dreaded even ere homecome: when shall we set for my bridetide?
2020s, Reid Sisson, A Castrovel Adventure: Part 3, Chapter 46
Origin
Ancestral form of the term homecoming.
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