glooming

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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glooming

  1. present participle and gerund of gloom

Etymology 2

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Compare gloaming.

Noun

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glooming (plural gloomings)

  1. Twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming.
    • 1835, Richard Chenevix Trench, To my God-Child, on the Day of his Baptism:
      When the faint glooming in the sky / First lightened into day
    • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures”, in Poems. [], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, [], →OCLC, page 31:
      [T]he balmy glooming, crescent-lit, / Spread the light haze along the river-shores, / And in the hollows; []
  2. Gloomy behaviour; melancholy.
    • c. 1553, anonymous author, Gammer Gurton's Needle, London: Gibbings & Co. for the Early English Drama Society, published 1906, act 3, scene 3, page 35:
      What devil, woman! pluck up your heart, and leave off all this glooming.
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