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onbringing

noun

  1. A bringing on; an oncome; inducing; induction.

    Should it be requisite to remove both tubes a small portion of one ovary, on the less affected side, should be preserved, to obviate the sudden onbringing of an artificial menopause with its unpleasant sequelae.

  2. An ushering in.

    The church is God's appointed means for the salvation of the world, for the onbringing of the Millennium of peace and blessedness, and therefore must know the disease, in order skilfully to apply the remedy.

Where it comes from

From on- + bringing. Compare bring on. Compare also Dutch aanbrengen (“to apply, fix, put up”), German anbringen (“to install, apply, put on”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry onbringing (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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