oncome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The commencement or initial stages of a business, especially of one which requires great exertion.
noun
The setting about of an action; development; progress.
noun
A mysterious disease or ailment.
noun
A heavy fall of rain or snow; cloudburst.
Example Sentences
- "This said, and shaking his long dark spear, then forward he hurl'd it Into the fullround buckler of Priamides Alexander; Right thro' his glittering shield oncame the redoubtable warspear, On still advanced, throughpiercing his breastplate's various-art-work [...]"
- "A trip from you. Taken. . . . Then time oncame [...]"
- "I see the dawn or rather I feel the oncome of it."
- "On inquiry it was found that this neurosis corresponded in time with the oncome of the catamenia."
- ""She often has oncomes," explained Angus shortly. "But now we will tell, for though but children, we talk straighter.""
- "This woman had acquired a considerable reputation among the ignorant by the pretended cures which she performed, especially in oncomes, as the Scotch call them, or mysterious diseases, which baffle the regular physician."