Gaincoming

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Return; a coming again; second coming or advent. obsolete, uncountable

    "The mass he meant to impugn was "not the blissed institution of the Lord Jesus, which he hath commanded to be used in his kirk, to his gaincoming, but that which is cropen in into the kirk visible, without all approbation of ye word of God.""

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returnreturnsecond coming

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"The mass he meant to impugn was "not the blissed institution of the Lord Jesus, which he hath commanded to be used in his kirk, to his gaincoming, but that which is cropen in into the kirk visible, without all approbation of ye word of God.""

Etymology

From gain- + coming. Compare gaincome and gainsay.

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