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▪ I. glooming, vbl. n.|ˈgluːmɪŋ|
[f. gloom v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of frowning, etc.; a frown, scowl; a fit of sullenness.
13..Peter & Paul 74 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 77 Hetheli glowminge & wordes grete. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 146 From glowmyng thei come to schouldering; frome schouldering, thei go to buffettis. 1645Rutherford Tryal & Tri. Faith (1845) 259 Christ's gloomings..have much of heaven in them. 1854Carlyle Fredk. Gt. IV. 383 A great deal of trouble with his gloomings.
2. poet. Twilight, gloaming; also, early dawn, morning twilight.[Perh. an artificial adaptation for gloaming or OE. glómung.] 1842Tennyson Gardener's Dau. 258 Or while the balmy glooming, crescent-lit, Spread the light haze along the river-shores. 1877Morris Sigurd 315 Good tidings with the daybreak, fair fame with the glooming is born. 1879Trench Poems 23 For where the watcher, who..could ever say When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day?
▪ II. glooming, ppl. a.1
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. Sullen, frowning, scowling, melancholy.
c1440Gesta Rom. liii. 233 (Harl. MS.) But she Reprevide him moche, & shewid to him much glowmynge cher. c1450Henryson Mor. Fab. 10 What pleasure is in feastes delicate, The which are given with a glouming brow. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. i. ii, With glooman brow the laird seeks in his rent. 1889Stevenson Master of B. (1896) 77 There is altogether some excuse if Ballantrae showed something of a glooming disposition.
2. That grows or appears dark.
1535Coverdale Joel ii. 1 A darcke daye, a gloomynge daye, a cloudy daye. 1595Spenser Col. Clout 954 The glooming skies Warnd them to draw their bleating flocks to rest. 1822‘B. Cornwall’ (Proctor) Flood of Thessaly i. 191 Towards the glooming shore The tempest sailed direct. 1839Longfellow Hyperion iii. iii, For a long time they gazed at the glooming landscape, and spake not. 1896Howells Impressions & Exp. 203 The glooming reaches and expanses of the corridors.
fig.1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. v. iii. 305 A glooming peace this morning with it brings, The sunne for sorrow will not shew his head.
Hence ˈgloomingly adv., in a glooming fashion.
1598Florio, Foltamente..throngingly, pressingly, gloomingly. 1831J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXX. 550 You look too gloomingly at every thing.
▪ III. ˈglooming, ppl. a.2 Obs. exc. dial.
Also 6 gloming.
[f. gloom v.2 + -ing2.]
†a. Gleaming, shining (obs.).
b. dial. (See quot. 1881.)
In quot. 1579 perh. a forced use of glooming ppl. a.1 With quot. 1601 cf. gloaming 1 b.
1579Remedy Lawlesse Loue (Roxb.) C ij b, The Cormorant That makes his God of earthly gloming Golde. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. i. 14 His glistering armor made A litle glooming light, much like a shade. 1601? Marston Pasquil & Kath. ii. 93 The glooming morne with shining armes hath chaste The siluer Ensigne of the grimme-cheekt night. 1881Leicester Gloss., Glooming, glowing, burning hot. |