glooming
noun 2
Collocations
3ADJ.
all, faint
GLOOMING + NOUN
sky
PREP.
in, off
Definitions
noun
1
Twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming.
When the faint glooming in the sky / First lightened into day
[T]he balmy glooming, crescent-lit, / Spread the light haze along the river-shores, / And in the hollows; […]
2
Gloomy behaviour; melancholy.
What devil, woman! pluck up your heart, and leave off all this glooming.
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When the faint glooming in the sky / First lightened into day
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[T]he balmy glooming, crescent-lit, / Spread the light haze along the river-shores, / And in the hollows; […]
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What devil, woman! pluck up your heart, and leave off all this glooming.
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