Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The property of being ominous, significant, or portentous.
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- noun The quality of being
ominous
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Examples
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Were I inclined to follow his example in making remarks upon the "ominousness" of names, I might perhaps retaliate upon him with interest.
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Modern secular Muslim writers, particularly fiction writers, barely feature the mosque in their work, and when they do, it's anything but picturesque -- more prone to profanity and ominousness than to devotion.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010
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Modern secular Muslim writers, particularly fiction writers, barely feature the mosque in their work, and when they do, it's anything but picturesque -- more prone to profanity and ominousness than to devotion.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010
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Modern secular Muslim writers, particularly fiction writers, barely feature the mosque in their work, and when they do, it's anything but picturesque -- more prone to profanity and ominousness than to devotion.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010
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But I put two and two together, and knew that the two tired saddle horses were just one more added touch of ominousness to the situation.
Chapter 13 2010
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Modern secular Muslim writers, particularly fiction writers, barely feature the mosque in their work, and when they do, it's anything but picturesque -- more prone to profanity and ominousness than to devotion.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010
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Modern secular Muslim writers, particularly fiction writers, barely feature the mosque in their work, and when they do, it's anything but picturesque -- more prone to profanity and ominousness than to devotion.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010
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Modern secular Muslim writers, particularly fiction writers, barely feature the mosque in their work, and when they do, it's anything but picturesque -- more prone to profanity and ominousness than to devotion.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010
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Christopher Oram's twin-levelled set, with its high, perpendicular windows, conveys the ominousness of the tribunal's public spaces.
Danton's Death 2010
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Even so, the lost Bohemia of their Greenwich Village period will not be denied, and before too long Frank and April are smilingly condescending to help out a local troupe called, with brilliant ominousness, the Laurel Players.
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