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If there is talk of yielding, it will come from the English, not from us That was a playful way of saying that there will be no yielding by any of the Western Allies.

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  1. intransitive verb To advance toward the speaker or toward a specified place; approach: Come to me.
  2. intransitive verb To advance in a specified manner: The children came reluctantly when I insisted.
  3. intransitive verb To make progress; advance: a former drug addict who has come a long way.

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  • I'm all on a fire already-- come, come, now call me in for pity-- Sure I'm enchanted! —  The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I
  • Come, come, we're dull, give us some Musick-- come, my Lord, I'll give you a Song, I love Musick as I do a Drum, there's Life and Soul in't, call my Musick Fleet. —  The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I
  • It is all right, only don't cough too much, or the ladies will see you are laughing Ah, Velasco, come--come Go away, child! —  The Black Cross
  • The [Transcribers Note: Text source unreadable] almost all things which come from the German chemical expert, is a model of good workmanship [Transcribers Note Text source unreadable] and arrangement, and no one who is in search of a handbook to enamelling, [Transcribers Note: Text source unreadable] whether he is a craftsman producing his beautiful translucent colours on gold, silver and copper, or the hollow-ware manufacturer making enamelled saucepans and kettles, can wish for a more useful practical manual." —  The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
  • He made a hit by writing a sham account of Prior's mission to Paris supposed to come from a French valet. —  English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century
 

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arrival ·  approach ·  go ·  sign ·  appearance ·  vision ·  call ·  return ·  visit ·  pass ·  one ·  make

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come:   came ·  coming ·  comes
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English comen, from Old English cuman; see gwā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also cum (present participle also comming, cumming, preterit often come, com); from Middle English cumen, comen (preterit cam, com, cum, plural comen, cumen (later modern dial. come, preterit), past participle cumen, comen), from Anglo-Saxon cuman (Old Northumbrian cuma, cyma, come, cwome), contr. of *cwiman (preterit cōm, cwom, plural cōmon, cwōmon, for *cwam, plural *cwāmon, past participle cumen), = Old Saxon kuman = OFries. kuma, koma, modern Friesic kommen = Middle Dutch, Dutch komen = Middle Low German Low German komen = Old High German queman, chweman, coman, choman, cuman, kuman, Middle High German chomen, komen, kumen, German kommen = Icelandic koma = Swedish komma = Danish komme = Gothic (Moesogothic) kwiman (preterit kwam, plural kwēmum, etc., past participle kwumans), come, = Latin ven-ire (for *gvem-ire) (later F. Provencal Spanish venir = Portuguese vir = Italian venire), come, = Umbrian ben- = Oscan ben- = Greek βαίν-ειν (for *βάνjειν for *γ#567άνjειν) = OPers. √ gam, jam = Zend √ gam = Sanskritgam, go. A very prolific root; from the English word are derived comely, become, becoming, etc., income, oncome, outcome, etc.; from the L., advene, convene, prevene, supervene, convenient, advent, convent, event, invent, prevent, adventure, conventicle, venture, etc.; from the Greek, base, basis, bema, anabasis, catabasis, acrobat, etc.
  2. from Middle English come, cume, coming, from Anglo-Saxon cyme = Old Saxon kumi = Old High German chumi, chome, quemi, coming, = Icelandic koma, kvāma = Danish komme; from the verb.
 

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