to-come

alternative tocome · alternative to come

1. rareuncountableSomething which is to come.

   Of a discourse to come – on the to-come and repetition.

   2013, Maria-Daniella Dick, Derrida Wordbook, page 416

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   They denote a factual to-come. Heidegger, on the other hand, holds that time originates in the to-come, regardless of contents.

   1999, James Risser, Heidegger toward the Turn, page 267

2. rareuncountableThe future.

   The Past / Now stands before thee like an Incarnation / Of the To-come;

   1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hellas, page 49

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   But, it is plain, they would not be competent to grapple with the 'To-come.'

   1849 January, Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, “The Literature of Gothic Architecture”, in The Eclectic Review, volume 25, page 37

   Hope, not only as concerning the future state: that, it is to be trusted, all men possess: but hope as regards the present, and the to-come, of our little narrow world.

   1871 June 1, Charles William Wood, “Of Hope”, in The Argosy, volume 11, number 6, London: J. Ogden & Co., page 429

   You are the future, the to-come, of the world. I congratulate you, boys and girls, that you live in this generation.

   1893, Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston, page 464

   With leave to clench the past, chain the to-come, Put out an arm and touch and take the sun […]

   1899, Robert Browning, The Complete Works of Robert Browning, published 1912, page 476

   (In the to-come [future], however, I am hoping we will score our toneworks with the full resources of the most lavish orchestra!)

   2006, Malcolm Gillies, David Pear, Mark Carroll, Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger, page 122

   Synonyms: to-be