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ominously |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ominous \Om"i*nous\, a. [L. ominosus, fr omen. See {Omen}.] Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as an ominous dread. He had a good ominous name to have made a peace. --Bacon. In the heathen worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart was accounted ominous. --South. -- {Om"i*nous*ly}, adv -- {Om"i*nous*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: ominously adv : in an ominous manner; "the sun darkened ominously"
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