impendent
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of impendent
1585–95; < Latin impendent- stem of impendēns present participle of impendēre to hang over, threaten. See impend, -ent
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I cherished the most optimistic ideas as to my impendent moustache, and was wont in privacy to encourage it with the manicure-scissors.
From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell
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 A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by J. T. Barber
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.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
How changes now the sentry's mien, How soft his tones and low, As Laura Secord tells her tale Of an impendent foe!
From Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. by Sarah Anne Curzon
Yet of the two the gloomier face showed below the count's coronet, for Perion did not relish the impendent interview with King Theodoret.
From Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship by James Branch Cabell
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