"to-come" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1999, James Risser, Heidegger toward the Turn, page 267",
          "text": "They denote a factual to-come. Heidegger, on the other hand, holds that time originates in the to-come, regardless of contents.",
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          "ref": "2013, Maria-Daniella Dick, Derrida Wordbook, page 416",
          "text": "Of a discourse to come – on the to-come and repetition.",
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        "Something which is to come."
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        "(rare) Something which is to come."
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          "ref": "1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hellas, page 49",
          "text": "The Past / Now stands before thee like an Incarnation / Of the To-come;",
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          "ref": "1849 January, Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, “The Literature of Gothic Architecture”, in The Eclectic Review, volume 25, page 37",
          "text": "But, it is plain, they would not be competent to grapple with the 'To-come.'",
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          "ref": "1871 June 1, Charles William Wood, “Of Hope”, in The Argosy, volume 11, number 6, London: J. Ogden & Co., page 429",
          "text": "Hope, not only as concerning the future state: that, it is to be trusted, all men possess: but hope as regards the present, and the to-come, of our little narrow world.",
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          "ref": "1893, Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston, page 464",
          "text": "You are the future, the to-come, of the world. I congratulate you, boys and girls, that you live in this generation.",
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          "ref": "1899, Robert Browning, The Complete Works of Robert Browning, published 1912, page 476",
          "text": "With leave to clench the past, chain the to-come,\nPut out an arm and touch and take the sun […]",
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          "ref": "2006, Malcolm Gillies, David Pear, Mark Carroll, Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger, page 122",
          "text": "(In the to-come [future], however, I am hoping we will score our toneworks with the full resources of the most lavish orchestra!)",
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          "ref": "2018, Jim Kanaris, Reconfigurations of Philosophy of Religion: A Possible Future, page 214",
          "text": "The to-come, let us say, the “absolute” future, as opposed to the future-present, is the object of our hope and desire, the stuff of a certain faith.",
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        "The future."
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        "(rare) The future."
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