To-come
Origin
From , perhaps continuing , from .
Full definition of to-come
Noun
to-come
(uncountable)- (rare) Something which is to come.
- 1999, James Risser
- 2013, Maria-Daniella Dick, Derrida Wordbook, Of a discourse to come – on the to-come and repetition.
- Arthur Bradley, Paul Fletcher
- Terry Smith
- (rare) The future.
- 1822, w:Percy Bysshe Shelley, w
- 1849, Samuel Greatheed; Daniel Parken; Theophilus Williams, The Literature of Gothic Architecture, But, it is plain, they would not be competent to grapple with the 'To-come.'
- 1871-06-01, Charles William Wood, Of Hope, 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.
- 1893, Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston, You are the future, the to-come, of the world. I congratulate you, boys and girls, that you live in this generation.
- 1899, Robert Browning, The Complete Works of Robert Browning, With leave to clench the past, chain the to-come,
Put out an arm and touch and take the sun ... - 2006, Malcolm Gillies; David Pear; Mark Carroll, Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger, (In the to-come future, however, I am hoping we will score our toneworks with the full resources of the most lavish orchestra!)
- 2018, Jim Kanaris, Reconfigurations of Philosophy of Religion: A Possible Future, The to-come, let us say, the “absolute” future, as opposed to the future-present, is the object of our hope and desire, the stuff of a certain faith.
Synonyms
- (the future) to-be; see also