Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Ominously; portentously.
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- adverb in a
boding manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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How dark it was growing! how weirdly soughed the wind among the pine tops! how bodingly the thunder growled afar!
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various
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Thomas Gordon had shaken his head bodingly when he had looked at her that morning at the breakfast table.
Kilmeny of the Orchard Lucy Maud 1910
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Thomas Gordon had shaken his head bodingly when he had looked at her that morning at the breakfast table.
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With a promptitude that was absolutely terrifying the two lines of red shirts began to draw together, voices growling bodingly, fists clinching, eyes narrowing with the reviving hatred of old contests.
The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900
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I could not help reflecting bodingly upon the intemperate zeal with which middle-aged men are apt to surfeit themselves upon a seductive folly which they have tasted for the first time.
The Innocents Abroad — Volume 05 Mark Twain 1872
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I could not help reflecting bodingly upon the intemperate zeal with which middle-aged men are apt to surfeit themselves upon a seductive folly which they have tasted for the first time.
The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1872
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And Dennet turned majestically away with her bird -- Goldspot only in the future -- perched on her finger; while Perronel shook her head bodingly.
The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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And Dennet turned majestically away with her bird -- Goldspot only in the future -- perched on her finger; while Perronel shook her head bodingly.
The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Sorrowfully and bodingly Mansfeld withdrew to consult again with the
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Sorrowfully and bodingly Mansfeld withdrew to consult again with the
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1574-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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