impendent

[im-pen-duhnt]

adjective

1. impending.

Other Word Forms

• impendence noun
• impendency noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of impendent¹

1585–95; < Latin impendent- stem of impendēns present participle of impendēre to hang over, threaten. See impend, -ent

Example Sentences

Perhaps, with another round of grand reform either impendent or oversold, they already have.

From New York Times

When it is an evil time, the evil of sin is incumbent, and the evil of wrath is impendent over a land; then the lion hath roared, who will not fear?

From Project Gutenberg

From this spot a ditch-like road, almost impracticable for carriages, strikes off among the mountains, “Through tangled forests, and through dang’rous ways,” carried upon precipices impendent over the brawling torrent of the Hondy. 

From Project Gutenberg

The most interesting examples of these cliffs are usually to be seen impendent above strong torrents, which, if forced originally to run in a valley, such as a in Fig.

From Project Gutenberg

The sea is calm, touched here and there on the fringes of the bays and headlands with silvery light; and impendent crags loom black and sombre against the feeble azure of the moonlit sky.

From Project Gutenberg

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