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Portentous   /pɔrtˈɛntəs/   Listen
adjective
Portentous  adj.  
1.
Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous. "For, I believe, they are portentous things." "Victories of strange and almost portentous splendor."
2.
Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size.





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"Portentous" Quotes from Famous Books



... moment there was portentous silence on the part of Colonel Ashley. He gazed at his dangling line and at the straightened pole. ...
— The Golf Course Mystery • Chester K. Steele
... A portentous revolution was taking place. Before 1820 nearly all the wool of the country had been made into cloth by hand in the homes of the people, and the ratio of home manufactures to population was about the same in most of the States. Now the sheep-raisers sold their wool to the mill men, ...
— Expansion and Conflict • William E. Dodd
... direct the attention of the Irish Government to the now undoubted fact, that a great portion of the potato crop in this country was seriously affected by the disease in question." A cautious, well-weighed sentence, which, coming from such a responsible quarter, was full of portentous meaning for the future. The Dublin Corporation took up the question of the Potato Blight with much and praiseworthy earnestness. They appointed a committee to enquire and report on the subject. A meeting ...
— The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) - With Notices Of Earlier Irish Famines • John O'Rourke
... the eyes of the old party leaders to the significance of the Populist returns. Democrats, with a clear majority of electoral votes, were not inclined to worry about local losses or to value incidental gains; and Republicans felt that the menace of the third party was much less portentous than it might have been ...
— The Agrarian Crusade - A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics • Solon J. Buck
... "Ma's" best parlor, with its cross-stitch embroideries, its mourning pictures, its rigid black horse-hair chairs and sofas. Above the mantelpiece, with its tall vases of waving pampas grass, "Ma" herself gazed down from a portentous gold frame with a quelling glance; "Pa" hung beside her, a meek young man with a feeble smile of apology; one could understand that he had backed out of existence as soon as might be. In one corner stood a tall dim mirror, and before ...
— The Wooing of Calvin Parks • Laura E. Richards


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