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Quotation dates: 1598
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(Uncuming,) Uncomming, vbl. n. [e.m.E. uncoming (1593); Cum v.] The action or fact of not coming in, non-entry. — 1598 James VI Minor Prose 80/36.
At the very moment of the expiring of the king reigning, the nearest & lawfull heire entreth in his place. And so to refuse him, or intrude an other, is not to hold out vncomming in; but to expell & put out their righteous king
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