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Definition of Portentousness

Portentousness
Portentous Por*tent"ous, a. [L. portentosus.] 1. Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous. For, I believe, they are portentous things. --Shak. Victories of strange and almost portentous splendor. --Macaulay. 2. Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size. --Roscommon. -- Por*tent"ous*ly, adv. -- Por*tent"ous*ness, n.

Meaning of Portentousness from wikipedia

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- Commenting on Derrida's Specters of Marx, Terry Eagleton wrote "The portentousness is ingrained in the very letter of this book, as one theatrically inflected...
- successful Prime Ministers. But Trevelyan admits that, "owing to the portentous character of the electoral catastrophe of 1906 that claim is not always...
- reinforced this conclusion, Stubbs describing it as "one of the most portentous events in the whole of our history". In the 20th century, this interpretation...
- JSTOR 1346168. Brophy, Alfred L. (1995–1996). "Over and above ... There Broods a Portentous Shadow – The Shadow of Law: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Critique of Slave...
- Yakuza (1975); Shogun ********in (1980) At the conclusion of the scene, a portentous line of M****llus's echoes one from the crime drama Charley Varrick (1973)...
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- preparation for the role, told director Hugh Hudson that he didn't feel the portentous and sanctimonious scripted speech was either authentic or inspiring. Hudson...