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noun

Glooming n. Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming. "When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day." "The balmy glooming, crescent-lit."

verb

Gloom v. t.

To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. "A bow window... gloomed with limes." "A black yew gloomed the stagnant air."

To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen. "Such a mood as that which lately gloomed Your fancy." "What sorrows gloomed that parting day."

Gloom v. i. (past & past part. gloomed; pres. part. glooming)

To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight. "The black gibbet glooms beside the way." "(This weary day)... at last I see it gloom."

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Etymology of 'Glooming'

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"Glooming" Quotes from Famous Books

... way of laughing it off, but was rather disposed to see the serious side of it. Probably that was the reason we took to each other; the balance was restored so. Maybe he sobered me down somewhat. If any one assumes that in my role of unhappy lover I went about glooming and glowering on mankind, he makes a big mistake. Besides, I had not the least notion of accepting that role as permanent. I was out to twist the wheel of fortune my way when I could get my hands upon it. I never doubted ...

— The Making of an American • Jacob A. Riis

... orange before almost every door. The softness and transparency of the air soon told me I was arrived in happier climates; and I felt sensations of joy and novelty run through my veins, upon beholding this smiling land of groves and verdure stretched out before me. A few glooming vapours, I can hardly call them clouds, rested upon the extremities of the landscape; and, through their medium, the sun cast an oblique and dewy ray. Peasants were returning homeward from the cultivated ...

— Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents • William Beckford

... I' the glooming light Of middle night, So cold and white, Worn Sorrow sits by the moaning wave; Beside her are laid, Her mattock and spade, For she hath half delved her own deep grave. Alone she is there: The white clouds drizzle: her hair falls loose; ...

— The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Alfred Lord Tennyson

... with his hand on the straps of his valise, a glooming foreboding seized him. "I must watch this devilish woman! She was far too placid. She has not swallowed all my story. If she should try to cable, or to communicate." He paused, and the cold sweat gathered upon his brow. "I'll closely watch her. I'll rush her through Stettin. ...

— The Midnight Passenger • Richard Henry Savage

... you have always lived for others," answered Rosa, with an involuntary sigh, a shadow glooming her eyes. ...

— At Last • Marion Harland

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