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glooming

verb

Etymology

Compare gloaming.

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of gloom

  2. Twilight of morning or evening

    Twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming.

    • When the faint glooming in the sky / First lightened into day
    • [T]he balmy glooming, crescent-lit, / Spread the light haze along the river-shores, / And in the hollows; […]

  3. Gloomy behaviour

    Gloomy behaviour; melancholy.

    • What devil, woman! pluck up your heart, and leave off all this glooming.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA