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Impendent

adjective
1.
Close in time; about to occur.  Synonyms: at hand, close at hand, imminent, impending.  "Some people believe the day of judgment is close at hand" , "In imminent danger" , "His impending retirement"






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"Impendent" Quotes from Famous Books



... Awaked, should blow them into sevenfold rage, And plunge us in the flames; or from above Should intermitted vengeance arm again His red right hand to plague us? What if all Her stores were opened, and this firmament Of Hell should spout her cataracts of fire, Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall One day upon our heads; while we perhaps, Designing or exhorting glorious war, Caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled, Each on his rock transfixed, the sport and prey Or racking whirlwinds, or for ever sunk Under yon boiling ocean, wrapt in chains, ...
— Paradise Lost • John Milton



Words linked to "Impendent" :   close at hand, impending, close, impendency, imminent



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