Definition of "coming-on" [coming-on]

• Complaisant; willing to please.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "I wish she did take a more genuine interest in the “coming-on” of the last calf, the prospects of the squash crop, and the yield and price of butter; but though she has learned to make excellent butter and bread, it is all against the grain."
• "I will be your Rosalind in a more coming-on disposition, and ask me what you will."
• "Chaucer says that the coming-on of the love-month produces in the heart of the lover"