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Definition of "impendent" [im•pend•ent]

  • Being about to occur; impending. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "impendent" in a sentence
  • "Majora's mechanics relied on time manipulation to avoid the impendent doom, but there were times where you actually felt threatened to finish a certain task or even felt a little sad for the ones you wouldn't be able to save on that particular run."
  • "Last year, the Iranian government blocked five million websites for having allegedly pornographic content and disseminating impendent news information to the public."
  • "Nec omnibus, sed mercatoribus et iis qui honeste impendent, &c."
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