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adjective

Imminent adj.

Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; said especially of misfortune or peril. "In danger imminent."

Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous. "Hairbreadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach."

(With upon) Bent upon; attentive to. (R.) "Their eyes ever imminent upon worldly matters."

Synonyms: Impending; threatening; near; at hand. Imminent, Impending, Threatening. Imminent is the strongest: it denotes that something is ready to fall or happen on the instant; as, in imminent danger of one's life. Impending denotes that something hangs suspended over us, and may so remain indefinitely; as, the impending evils of war. Threatening supposes some danger in prospect, but more remote; as, threatening indications for the future. "Three times to-day You have defended me from imminent death." "No story I unfold of public woes, Nor bear advices of impending foes." "Fierce faces threatening war."

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Etymology of 'Imminent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Imminent" Quotes from Famous Books

... confession was an actual fact. The consequences of this fact were clear to him at once, its falsehood could not fail to be discovered, and then they would be after him again. Till then, at least, he was free and must do something for himself, for the danger was imminent. ...

— Crime and Punishment • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... something. You have been insanely imagining that it is necessary for you to be in three or four places at the same time, and in the distracted effort after ubiquity you are in imminent danger of being ...

— Queechy • Susan Warner

... me!" sobbed the siren. "It was the sin of helplessness and cowardice. I dreaded discovery so much! Every circumstance alarmed me. Your arrival and your long mysterious conversation with madam alarmed me. I thought exposure imminent. I feared to lose this home, which, lonely, dreary, hopeless as it is to me, is yet the only refuge I have left on earth. I am penniless and helpless; and but for this kind family I should be homeless and friendless. Think if I had been cast out upon the world what ...

— Victor's Triumph - Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

... valid explanation of what Carpenter calls her sexual passivity. Man is a born polygamist, but woman is not naturally polyandrous. This statement—which I have made hitherto to the consternation of the godly and at imminent danger of being prosecuted for heresy—is substantiated by the fact that with man desire usually precedes love, while the latter is not its necessary sequence; but with the normal woman love must ...

— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... march was conducted with soldierly precaution, the camp at night sedulously chosen and patrolled; and it was a consideration of this sort that arrested us, the second day, within not many hundred yards of our destination—the night being already imminent, the spot in which we stood well qualified to be a strong camp for a party of our numbers; and Sir William, therefore, on a sudden thought, arresting ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) - The Master of Ballantrae • Robert Louis Stevenson

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