glooming en · VERB · etymology 1
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of gloom
form of gloom
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glooming en · NOUN · etymology 2
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Etymology
Compare gloaming.
Meanings
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Twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming.
When the faint glooming in the sky / First lightened into day
1835, Richard Chenevix Trench, To my God-Child, on the Day of his Baptism:[T]he balmy glooming, crescent-lit, / Spread the light haze along the river-shores, / And in the hollows; […]
1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 31:
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Gloomy behaviour; melancholy.
What devil, woman! pluck up your heart, and leave off all this glooming.
c. 1553, anonymous author, Gammer Gurton's Needle, London: Gibbings & Co. for the Early English Drama Society, published 1906, act 3, scene 3, page 35:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| gloomings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
vespers · misery (gloomy behaviour) · sadness (gloomy behaviour) · twilight · woe (gloomy behaviour) · crepuscule (twilight) · sorrow (gloomy behaviour)