▪ I. glooming, vbl. n.
(ˈgluːmɪŋ)
[f. gloom v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of frowning, etc.; a frown, scowl; a fit of sullenness.
| 13.. Peter & Paul 74 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 77 Hetheli glowminge & wordes grete. a 1572 Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 146 From glowmyng thei come to schouldering; frome schouldering, thei go to buffettis. 1645 Rutherford Tryal & Tri. Faith (1845) 259 Christ's gloomings..have much of heaven in them. 1854 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. IV. 383 A great deal of trouble with his gloomings. |
2. poet. Twilight, gloaming; also, early dawn, morning twilight.
[Perh. an artificial adaptation for gloaming or OE. glómung.]
| 1842 Tennyson Gardener's Dau. 258 Or while the balmy glooming, crescent-lit, Spread the light haze along the river-shores. 1877 Morris Sigurd 315 Good tidings with the daybreak, fair fame with the glooming is born. 1879 Trench Poems 23 For where the watcher, who..could ever say When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day? |
▪ II. glooming, ppl. a.1
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. Sullen, frowning, scowling, melancholy.
| c 1440 Gesta Rom. liii. 233 (Harl. MS.) But she Reprevide him moche, & shewid to him much glowmynge cher. c 1450 Henryson Mor. Fab. 10 What pleasure is in feastes delicate, The which are given with a glouming brow. 1725 Ramsay Gentle Sheph. i. ii, With glooman brow the laird seeks in his rent. 1889 Stevenson Master of B. (1896) 77 There is altogether some excuse if Ballantrae showed something of a glooming disposition. |
2. That grows or appears dark.
| 1535 Coverdale Joel ii. 1 A darcke daye, a gloomynge daye, a cloudy daye. 1595 Spenser Col. Clout 954 The glooming skies Warnd them to draw their bleating flocks to rest. 1822 ‘B. Cornwall’ (Proctor) Flood of Thessaly i. 191 Towards the glooming shore The tempest sailed direct. 1839 Longfellow Hyperion iii. iii, For a long time they gazed at the glooming landscape, and spake not. 1896 Howells Impressions & Exp. 203 The glooming reaches and expanses of the corridors. |
| fig. 1592 Shakes. Rom. & Jul. v. iii. 305 A glooming peace this morning with it brings, The sunne for sorrow will not shew his head. |
Hence ˈgloomingly adv., in a glooming fashion.
| 1598 Florio, Foltamente..throngingly, pressingly, gloomingly. 1831 J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXX. 550 You look too gloomingly at every thing. |
▪ III. ˈglooming, ppl. a.2 Obs. exc. dial.
Also 6 gloming.
[f. gloom v.2 + -ing2.]
† a. Gleaming, shining (obs.). b. dial. (See quot. 1881.)
In quot. 1579 perh. a forced use of glooming ppl. a.1 With quot. 1601 cf. gloaming 1 b.
| 1579 Remedy Lawlesse Loue (Roxb.) C ij b, The Cormorant That makes his God of earthly gloming Golde. 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. i. 14 His glistering armor made A litle glooming light, much like a shade. 1601 ? Marston Pasquil & Kath. ii. 93 The glooming morne with shining armes hath chaste The siluer Ensigne of the grimme-cheekt night. 1881 Leicester Gloss., Glooming, glowing, burning hot. |