imminence

noun

imminence

noun

Etymology Borrowed from Late Latin imminentia.

1

Usually The state or condition of being about to happen; imminent quality.

For three years there had been pestilence, and in the last of the three a famine; moreover, there was imminence of war.1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 61:

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