The Only Use
portentous
in
Middlemarch
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- But by-and-by Nancy, in her attic, became portentously worse, the supposed tumor having indeed given way to the blister, but only wandered to another region with angrier pain.†
Chpt 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(portentous) very important; or indicating something important in the future -- often something that is threatening
or:
acting overly important or serious - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)