Crossword clues for imminence
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Imminence \Im"mi*nence\, n. [Cf. F. imminence, L. imminentia, See Imminent.]
The condition or quality of being imminent; a threatening, as of something about to happen. The imminence of any danger or distress.
--Fuller.That which is imminent; impending evil or danger. ``But dare all imminence.''
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Late Latin imminentia, from Latin imminentem (see imminent).
Wiktionary
n. The state or condition of being about to happen, imminent.
WordNet
n. the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon [syn: imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendency, forthcomingness]
Wikipedia
Imminence is the quality of being imminent, i.e. about to occur.
Imminence is used:
- In law:
- Imminent threat, justification for the use of force in international law
- Right of self-defense for civilians requires a similar "imminent" threat
- Assault (tort), requires that harm is imminent, even if harm does not in fact occur
- Imminent lawless action, justification for restriction of free speech, superseding the earlier "clear and present danger"
- Exigent circumstance, justification for law enforcement to enter property without a warrant, may involve imminence
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End time, religious beliefs regarding the imminence or otherwise of the end of the world
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Second Coming of Jesus
- Imminence in the Olivet discourse, problematic passage in the Gospels
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Second Coming of Jesus
- Mayday (distress signal), meaning "grave and imminent danger"
Other uses of Imminent:
- Imminent, Belgian electronic noise music project
- Impact is Imminent, fourth album by thrash metal band Exodus
- Imminent Indeed, gothic adaptation of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera
Usage examples of "imminence".
He sensed the imminence of a batshit math-rap, bound to make him feel dumb.
I was working up some research about the imminence of the sun going nova and the frantic efforts to suppress the bone-crunching sea monsters when Crog reached out and tapped me crushingly with a stonehard finger.
The life-story of King Wenceslas had been dropped, Luke was thankful to notice, but it was intensely irritating for the chilled prisoners in the cow-house to be told that it was a hot time in the old town to-night, together with some accurate but entirely superfluous information as to the imminence of Christmas morning.
It was a life, once these men left the mission house of Notre Dame des Anges, that was without the slightest social intercourse, that was beyond the prizes of any earthly ambition, that was frequently in imminence of torture and death, and that was usually in physical discomfort if not in pain.
Since Aramina heard dragons and could give warning of the imminence of Threadfall, the family could travel with some impunity.
I have for some time been dreading the imminence of this storm as I watched the way you looked at one another with an expression of anything but brotherly love, and listened to some of your language.
Is it possible that in ceasing to be that first stone, and at the moment of becoming another, it does not feel its own calefaction, and with it the imminence of its own death?
A sense of imminence weighted the air, and here came the Juggers, looming through the passages.
She was disappointed when her teacher, very hurriedly, told the druids of the army that marched upon them, emphasizing the imminence of the danger.
The measured stamp of moccasined feet, the rush of Indians past the cabin, the dull thud of hatchets struck hard into the trees–all attested to the excitement of the savages, and the imminence of terrible danger.
This however comes from Warburg who is alternately over-optimistic and over-pessimistic -- at any rate, always believes in the imminence of enormous and dramatic changes.
Immediately, the telegraphs jangled, the water boiled whitely at the Sirrus's stern-shocked realisation of its imminence and death itself must have been only a merciful hair's-breadth apart for the unfortunate man in the water, and then the destroyer was clear, sheering sharply away from the Electra.