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imminence

[im-uh-nuhns]

noun

Also, im·mi·nen·cy. the state or condition of being imminent or impending: the imminence of war.

something that is imminent, especially an impending evil or danger.

Origin:
1600–10; < Late Latin imminentia. See imminent, -ence

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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imminent (ˈɪmɪnənt)

—*adj*
1.	liable to happen soon; impending
2.	obsolete jutting out or overhanging

[C16: from Latin imminēre to project over, from im- (in) + -minēre to project; related to mons mountain]

'imminence

—n

'imminentness

—n

'imminently

—*adv*

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"Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something; this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, the esthetic event."

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