Meaning of passing | Babel Free

Definitions

1. outcome
2. Death, dying; the end of something.
   countable, uncountable
3. The fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another.
   countable, uncountable
4. dénouement (conclusion or resolution of a plot)
5. The act of approving a bill etc.
   countable, uncountable
6. The act of passing a ball etc. to another player.
   countable, uncountable
7. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
8. A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.
   countable, uncountable
9. third-person singular imperative
10. The ability of a person to be regarded as a member of an identity group or category different from their own.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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 part with their cash.”

“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 with until now. … However, when his differentness is not immediately apparent, and is not known beforehand, … he is a discreditable, not a discredited person …. The issue is … that of managing information about his failing. To display or not to display; to tell or not to tell; to let on or not to let on; to lie or not to lie; and in each case, to whom, how, when, and where. … It is this second general issue, the management of undisclosed discrediting information about self, that I am focusing on in these notes - in brief, 'passing'.”

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