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Definition of Ominousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ominousness
Literary usage of Ominousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"... was not without ominousness, but he appeared not to care. He knew why she said
so little, but he could not remove the cause of her bearing toward him. ..."
2. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1908)
"In this world-tragedy of Romeo and Juliet the air hangs misty and golden, like
a midday in July, with the glow, the promise, and the ominousness of ..."
3. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 93 by Harvard University (1896)
"... and thus he has, as he thinks, completely changed the old idea about the
ominousness of a canina ..."
4. Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: From the Restoration of Charles II by Gilbert Burnet (1840)
"... to be such an extraordinary thunder, and such deluges of rain, as disgraced
the show, and heightened the opinion of the ominousness of this embassy. ..."
5. The Book of the Twelve Prophets Commonly Called the Minor by George Adam Smith (1898)
"... magnifying them and investing them with that air of ominousness which is the
sole justification of the allegorical and mystic interpretation of their ..."
6. The universal etymological English dictionaryby Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1731)
"or mouth apparent ; bur only a colouring lo thin, that the field may be feen thio
it. See the Filare. ominousness ..."
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