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Definition of Imminent
1. Adjective. Close in time; about to occur. "His impending retirement"
Similar to: Close
Derivative terms: Imminence, Imminency, Impendency
Definition of Imminent
1. a. Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril.
Definition of Imminent
1. Adjective. about to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Imminent
1. ready to take place [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imminent
Literary usage of Imminent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World to that which is to Come by John Bunyan (1806)
"Tender-conscience arrives at a place inhere stand the House of Mourning, and the
House of Mirth—His entertainment at the House of Mourning—He is in imminent ..."
2. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"... morning light More orient in that western cloud that draws O'er the blue (imminent
a radiant white, And slow descends with something heavenly fraught? ..."
3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"... where it was at that time believed that a French invasion from Dunkirk was
imminent. It was left to Wade's army, or rather to the English part of it, ..."
4. The American Revolution by Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1899)
"HOSTILITIES BECOME imminent. LEXINGTON. RIGBY had told the House of Commons that,
if the Acts against which Congress protested were repealed, ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From by Francis Vesey, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1827)
"... imminent dan- that, it any such building, as above-mentioned, stood upon .
, . the same site formerly, the proprietors by not rebuild- terrai« ing it ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(53) That officer, in the sedition which occasioned the death of Probus, was
exposed to the most imminent danger, and the enraged soldiers were forcing ..."
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