fargoing

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

far +‎ going

Adjective[edit]

fargoing (comparative more fargoing, superlative most fargoing)

  1. Having significant implications or repercussions.
    • 1878, William Robertson Smith, Answer to the Form of Libel, page 59:
      I have no objection to what was said about the speeches in Chronicles except on this one point of view, that my opinions were charged as being linked into something that was much more fargoing.
    • 1988, Reuven Yaron, The Laws of Eshnunna, page 28:
      [] but even if preference is given to the other possibility, this is still not a fargoing “development” of the law, on the basis of which one would have to postulate the passage of a considerable length of time from the version of Tablet A to that of B.