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Definition
very important; or indicating something important in the future
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acting overly important or serious
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acting overly important or serious
- I think it be no other but e'en so: Well may it sort, that this portentous figure Comes armed through our watch; so like the king That was and is the question of these wars.1.1 — Act 1 Scene 1 — Elsinore (64% in)
There are no more uses of "portentous" in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
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