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单词 predooming
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predoomingadj.

Forms: 1600s praedooming, 1600s–1700s predooming.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pre- prefix, dooming adj. at doom v. Derivatives.
Etymology: < pre- prefix + dooming adj. at doom v. Derivatives. Compare later predoom v.
Obsolete.
That preordains or presages doom or destruction.
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1618 Owles Almanacke 2 I haue euer beene held a Prædooming Bird.
1685 J. Jackson et al. Annot. Holy Bible II. Joel ii Thou onely canst expose us to Famine and servitude, and both will come upon us if thou first give us up to these predooming locusts.
1781 J. Rutherford tr. Cicero Principal Orations i. 13 But, to return, Catiline, to that night of predooming slaughter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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