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ENSUING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Following immediately and as a result of what went before
Example:
ensuing events confirmed the prediction
Classified under:
Similar:
succeeding (coming after or following)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb ensue
Context examples:
There was also a postscript to the effect that though The Billow carried no free-list, it took great pleasure in sending him a complimentary subscription for the ensuing year.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It was spoken of again while they were at dinner, when Mr. Collins joining in, observed: Yes, Miss Elizabeth, you will have the honour of seeing Lady Catherine de Bourgh on the ensuing Sunday at church, and I need not say you will be delighted with her.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Accordingly I hid myself in some thick underwood, determining to devote the ensuing hours to reflection on my situation.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
And he proceeded to inform us that his departure from England was now definitively fixed for the ensuing year.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He had said to her, moreover, on the very last morning, that he hoped she might see William again in the course of the ensuing winter, and had charged her to write and invite him to Mansfield as soon as the squadron to which he belonged should be known to be in England.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
When she came down to dinner on the ensuing Sunday, and was so glad to see old Traddles (who always dined with us on Sunday), we thought she would be running about as she used to do, in a few days.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
During the ensuing days, while the preparations were going forward for the escape of the merchant, the zeal of Felix was warmed by several letters that he received from this lovely girl, who found means to express her thoughts in the language of her lover by the aid of an old man, a servant of her father who understood French.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I assured him I was naturally hard—very flinty, and that he would often find me so; and that, moreover, I was determined to show him divers rugged points in my character before the ensuing four weeks elapsed: he should know fully what sort of a bargain he had made, while there was yet time to rescind it.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The ensuing spring deprived her of her valued friend, the old grey pony; and for some time she was in danger of feeling the loss in her health as well as in her affections; for in spite of the acknowledged importance of her riding on horse-back, no measures were taken for mounting her again, because, as it was observed by her aunts, she might ride one of her cousin's horses at any time when they did not want them, and as the Miss Bertrams regularly wanted their horses every fine day, and had no idea of carrying their obliging manners to the sacrifice of any real pleasure, that time, of course, never came.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Summer passed away in these occupations, and my return to Geneva was fixed for the latter end of autumn; but being delayed by several accidents, winter and snow arrived, the roads were deemed impassable, and my journey was retarded until the ensuing spring.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
