What is "passings"

Usage examples of "passings".

Tens of times he had sung the ritual, the Shon’jir, the Song of Passings, chanted at births and deaths and beginnings and endings.

And every tribe on the face of the world that has seen cities attacked or passings in the skies will look to its defenses.

The other branch inds observed his passings from a distance, making no judgments.

If she had passed Eliot on the street once, which she probably had, that once had become a thousand passings in her mind -- each with its own dramatic lights and shadows.

The floors were worn by years of treading feet, the corners of the walls abraded and smoothed by the passings of innumerable bodies.

A few more passings of the moon and I'll sleep with my esteemed ancestors.