come of

English

Verb

come of (third-person singular simple present comes of, present participle coming of, simple past came of, past participle come of)

  1. To result from.
    What ever came of that? — Don't worry, I don’t think anything will come of it.
    • 1861, Frank Boott Goodrich, Flirtation, and what comes of it: A Comedy in Five Acts, page 63:
      [see title]
    • 1865, Jane Carlyle, in a letter to T. Carlyle, 5 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, of Friday, 12 August, 1865, published in the Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, volume 1, in 1883:
      It all came of you being moving, and me sitting still!
    • 2023 May 24, J. Aaron Gruben, Elye of Saint Gilles: A Chansons de Geste Retold, Post Tenebras Lux Books:
      But the words stuck in his throat, as Elye struck him down. (That's what comes of talking too much while you battle.)
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