non-coming

noun

non-coming

noun

Etymology From Middle English non comyng, noun comyng, equivalent to non (“no”, adjective) + coming.

1

A lack or absence of coming; failure to come

[…] and inasmuch as the husband does not now come, which non-coming shall be adjudged a default, we pray that they be distrained to attorn.1889, Alfred John Horwood, Luke Owen Pike, Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the Third - Issue 5, page 28:
This poem is about non-coming and non-going.2013, Thich Nhat Hanh, Call Me by My True Names, page 87:

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Beginning at the end, ending at the beginning, the comings and goings—the non-comings, the non-goings— of Estragon and Vladimir settling onto boots, and swollen feet; a very precise picture of pain.2014, Clark Lunberry, Sites of Performance, page 4:

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