Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Entrance; arrival; introduction.
  • noun Income; revenue.
  • noun Submission; compliance; surrender.

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Examples

  • A free course and an easy one, where Francis can roll smoothly where he will, and can choose between the start, or the coming-in, or the turn behind the brow of the hill, or any out-of-the-way point where he lists to see the throbbing horses straining every nerve, and making the sympathetic earth throb as they come by.

    The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

  • The coming-in of Trottle and the old woman did not startle or disturb him in the least.

    A House to Let 2007

  • But even now, we have a melancholy pleasure in it: just such a one, as the sorrowing friends of the desperate sick experience, on the coming-in of a long-expected physician, al-though they are in a manner hopeless of his success.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • I guess that is what I get for coming-in in the middle.

    "Endless diversity" in bacterial genomes? - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • That splendid music, the coming-in music -- "The Elephant March" from Aida -- is the music I've chosen for my funeral -- and you can see why.

    Richard Dawkins on militant atheism 2002

  • That splendid music, the coming-in music -- "The Elephant March" from Aida -- is the music I've chosen for my funeral -- and you can see why.

    Richard Dawkins on militant atheism 2002

  • That splendid music, the coming-in music -- "The Elephant March" from Aida -- is the music I've chosen for my funeral -- and you can see why.

    Richard Dawkins on militant atheism 2002

  • Which distance exceeding a sabbath-day's journey, the poor, before the coming-in of the sabbath, contained themselves within the bounds of Arumah; that, the morning following, they might betake themselves to the houses of those that distributed their charity, and not break the sabbath.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • There was a simple coming-in for one woman acting at Brooklyn on her birthday!

    McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Various

  • Over each door shall hang one of the lithographed angel-heads of the San Sisto, to watch our going-out and coming-in; and the glorious

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

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