Both Uses of
imminent
in
Wuthering Heights
- She grew cross and wearisome; snapping at and teasing Catherine continually, at the imminent risk of exhausting her limited patience.†
p. 73.3 *
- I could not picture a father treating a dying child as tyrannically and wickedly as I afterwards learned Heathcliff had treated him, to compel this apparent eagerness: his efforts redoubling the more imminently his avaricious and unfeeling plans were threatened with defeat by death.†
p. 188.8
Definition:
about to occur