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Impendent  adj.  Impending; threatening. "Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Impendent" Quotes from Famous Books



... reproof to me in every word he uttered, and even more in his curt tone. I stood at the window with my back to him, looking through the dripping little panes at the scattered lights across the river, and not ceasing for an instant to think forebodingly of the scene which was impendent. ...
— In the Valley • Harold Frederic

... the Flames? or from above Should intermitted vengeance Arme again His red right hand to plague us? what if all Her stores were op'n'd, and this Firmament Of Hell should spout her Cataracts of Fire, Impendent horrors, threatning hideous fall One day upon our heads; while we perhaps Designing or exhorting glorious Warr, Caught in a fierie Tempest shall be hurl'd 180 Each on his rock transfixt, the sport and prey ...
— The Poetical Works of John Milton • John Milton



Words linked to "Impendent" :   close at hand, impending, impendency, close, at hand, imminent



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