passings

Noun

passing (countable and uncountable, plural passings)

1. Death, dying; the end of something.
2. The fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another.
   • And since he did not see Louie by the folding door, Louie knew that in his former passings and repassings he could not have seen her either.1913, Oliver Onions, The Story of Louie
3. The act of approving a bill etc.
   • But capital was proving difficult to raise; rumours were in the air that the G.W.R. and L.S.W.R. were about to patch up their quarrel, and the people of Southampton, who twelve months earlier had staged a torch-light procession to celebrate the passing of the D.N.S.R. Act, were increasingly loath...1955 February, T. B. Sands, “The Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 79
4. The act of passing a ball etc. to another player.
5. A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.
6. The ability of a person to be regarded as a member of an identity group or category different from their own.
   • When there is a discrepancy between an individual's actual social identity and his virtual one, it is possible for this fact to be known to us before we normals contact him, or to be quite evident when he presents himself before us. He is a discredited person, and it is mainly he I have been...1963, Erving Goffman, 'Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity', Ch.2 at p.57, 58 (page numbers per the Pelican Books 1976 reprint)

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