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present participle and gerund of gloom examples
plural gloomings
Twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming. quotations examples
When the faint glooming in the sky / First lightened into day
1835, Richard Chenevix Trench, To my God-Child, on the Day of his Baptism
[T]he balmy glooming, crescent-lit, / Spread the light haze along the river-shores, / And in the hollows; […]
1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], page 31
Gloomy behaviour; melancholy. quotations examples
What devil, woman! pluck up your heart, and leave off all this glooming.
c. 1553, anonymous author, Gammer Gurton's Needle, London: Gibbings & Co. for the Early English Drama Society, published 1906, act 3, scene 3, page 35