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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1483-1498, 1562-1680
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Doun-cuming, Down-coming, vbl. n. Also: don(e-, doune-, downe-, and cumming, -yng, comming, comeing. [ME. (once) doun-commyng (14th c.).] The act or fact of coming down, in various senses. a1400 Legends of the Saints xxii. 531.
A kyrk … The quhilk sic ned had of mending, That it was nere the done-cummyng 1483 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 47.
Thair complaint buir … that thay war rycht havely hurt … throw the doun cumming of the blak money 1498 Halyb. 94.
Paid for the samyn [dispensacion] at the don coming fra Rome 10 ducatis 1562-3 Winȝet I. 115/22.
Of our Saluiour ascensioun and douncuming of the Haly Gaist 1572 Reg. Privy C. II. 145.
[Charges] to be pait be the marchandis baith in thair uppassing and douncuming 1596 Dalr. II. 145/18.
Mony in the douncuming with the Inglis cannounis ar slane 1613 Forbes Comm. Rev. xviii. 188.
No more then could Sodome, after the angel his downe-comming to see it 1641 Acts V. 665/1.
His Maiesties dounecomeing seemed to … enforce the disbanding of the armyis c1680 W. Row Blair 400.
He might be ordained before the bishops' down-coming
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