All 3 Uses
ominous
in
The Scarlet Letter
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- Sometimes a light glimmered out of the physician's eyes, burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace, or, let us say, like one of those gleams of ghastly fire that darted from Bunyan's awful doorway in the hillside, and quivered on the pilgrim's face.†
p. 119.7ominous = threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
- Or was there, as it rather seemed, a circle of ominous shadow moving along with his deformity whichever way he turned himself?†
p. 162.7 *
- There was no feebleness of step as at other times; his frame was not bent, nor did his hand rest ominously upon his heart.†
p. 222.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(ominous) threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)