glooming

noun — 2 senses

glooming

noun

Etymology Compare gloaming.

1

Twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming.

When the faint glooming in the sky / First lightened into day1835, 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, […], →OCLC, page 31:

2

Gloomy behaviour; melancholy.

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:

Synonyms: crepuscule, twilight, vespers, misery, sadness, sorrow, woe

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