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noun

Glooming n. Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming. "When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day." "The balmy glooming, crescent-lit."

verb

Gloom v. t.

To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. "A bow window... gloomed with limes." "A black yew gloomed the stagnant air."

To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen. "Such a mood as that which lately gloomed Your fancy." "What sorrows gloomed that parting day."

Gloom v. i. (past & past part. gloomed; pres. part. glooming)

To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight. "The black gibbet glooms beside the way." "(This weary day)... at last I see it gloom."

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Etymology of 'Glooming'

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"Glooming" Quotes from Famous Books

... chanced to look up at the little glooming window, perched out of reach of mankind. And the thought that the window had burned there, patiently and unexpectantly, for hundreds of years, like an anchorite above the river and town, somehow disturbed ...

— Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days • Arnold Bennett

... lovely field that lay open to the earth. But now the trumpeter is sounding, "from the hid battlements of Eternity," the last word and final meaning of human life. His is a dread figure, "enwound with glooming robes purpureal, cypress-crowned." His demand is for death and sacrifice, calling the reluctant children of the green earth out from this pleasance to face the awful will ...

— Among Famous Books • John Kelman

... and switched on a blaze of light. With one accord they all looked at the stranger, for they had hardly seen him well in the glooming twilight. The woman started in amazement and the colonel half rose in anger. Why, the man was a mulatto, surely; even if he did not own the Negro blood, their practised eyes knew it. He was tall and straight and the coat looked like a Jewish gabardine. His hair hung in close curls far down the sides ...

— Darkwater - Voices From Within The Veil • W. E. B. Du Bois

... or number of the house for ten years—her youth, her early story came back to her as she wrote the superscription) one day Miss Osborne got a letter from Amelia which made her blush very much and look towards her father, sitting glooming in his place at the ...

— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray

... at even— Her tears fell ere the dews were dried; She could not look on the sweet heaven, Either at morn or eventide. After the flitting of the bats, When thickest dark did trance the sky, She drew her casement-curtain by, And glanced athwart the glooming flats. She only said, "The night is dreary— He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, weary, I ...

— The Illustrated London Reading Book • Various

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