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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

impendent en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin impendēns.

Meanings

  1. (archaic) impending; threatening
    • Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall. 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book 2, line 177:

Forms

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most impendent Degree=Sup lexicographic
more impendent Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Synonyms

proximate · imminent · in the offing