Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for GO'ING
GO'ING, n.
- The act of moving in any manner.
- The act of walking. Shak.
- Departure. Milton.
- Pregnancy. Grew.
- Procedure; way; course of life; behavior; deportment; used chiefly in the plural. His eyes are on the ways of man, and he seeeth all his goings. Job xxxiv.
- Procedure; course of providential agency or government. They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary. Ps. lxviii. Going out, or Goings out, in Scripture, utmost extremity or limit; the point where an extended body terminates Num. xxxiv. 5, 9. Departure or journeying. Num. xxxiii.
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