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Meanings of imminency in English

Portuguese
iminência
Catalan
imminència

The state of being imminent and liable to happen soon.

iminência
Synonyms
Examples for "imminence"
Examples for "imminence"
1
He sighed with a full sense of the imminence of the inevitable.
With the Procession
2
On the contrary, people refused to believe in the imminence of danger.
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3
There was in the air an imminence of incident, acid and barbed.
Nights in London
4
But the very imminence of the danger restored to him his energy.
The Clique of Gold
5
The sound from whose imminence Bobby had shrunk rattled in his ears.
The Abandoned Room
1
Then the breathless impendency of the event swept his mind clear of details.
The Beautiful and Damned
2
Their eyes rested upon the mountainside they had just left-oppressedby some dark sense of tragic impendency.
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Usage of imminency in English
1
Immediateness, imminency, hazardous urgency, swiftness, alarms, are written all over the book.
The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
2
The suddenness and imminency of the danger appeared to arouse all there was of life in Carlo Giuntotardi.
The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet
3
Having barely escaped this danger, our attention was now directed to the dreadful imminency of another-thatof absolute starvation.
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Frequent collocations
Translations for imminency
Portuguese
iminência
Imminency through the time