passing

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Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-der.

Proto-Italic *pattus

Latin passus

Proto-Italic *-āzi

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Latin -ereinflu.

Latin -āre

Vulgar Latin *passāre

Old French passerbor.

Middle English passen

English pass

English -ing

English passing

From pass + -ing.

That passes away; ephemeral. And solace sought he none from priest nor leech, / And soon the same in movement and in speech / As heretofore he fill'd the passing hours […]
archaic, literary Pre-eminent, excellent, extreme. her passing deformity
Vague, cursory. to make a passing comment
Going past. passing cars
That passes in any sense. a passing transsexual

archaic, literary, not comparable Surpassingly, greatly. [...] for she was called a fair lady, and a passing wise, and her name was called Igraine.

countable, uncountable Death, dying; the end of something.
countable, uncountable 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.
countable, uncountable 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 to
countable, uncountable The act of passing a ball etc. to another player.
countable, uncountable A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.
countable, uncountable 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 dealing