impendent
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- impendence noun
- impendency noun
Etymology
Origin of impendent
1585–95; < Latin impendent- stem of impendēns present participle of impendēre to hang over, threaten. See impend, -ent
Example Sentences
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Perhaps, with another round of grand reform either impendent or oversold, they already have.
From New York Times
From this place a path, traced under the woods, descends to the bath, a commodious building concealed from outward view by impendent foliage.
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
The glittering floor stretched away for acres of untenanted expanse, with not a skater to explore those dark mysterious coves, or strike across the slanting sunlight poured from clefts in the impendent hills.
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