单词 | imminence |
释义 | imminencen. 1. The fact or condition of being imminent or impending. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [noun] > nearness, approach, or imminence nighness1548 towardness1549 propinquity1611 approacha1616 coming1626 looming1627 impendencya1632 fall1647 imminence1655 impendence1657 instancy1658 imminency1665 soonness1668 incumbence1677 simmering1844 proximity1876 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 10 Rufus..on the imminence of any danger or distress..promised them the releasing of their taxes. 1784 Ann. Reg. 1782 Hist. Europe 59/1 Their want of exertion on the imminence of the danger. 1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire II. xii. 6 The apparent imminence of intestine war. 2. That which is imminent; impending evil or peril. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [noun] > nearness, approach, or imminence > that which is imminent imminence1609 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. xi. 13 I..dare all immynence that gods and men Addresse their daungers in. View more context for this quotation 1882 Quain's Med. Dict. 1151/2 The morbid imminences of this age are few. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1609 |
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