Meaning of threatensome | Babel Free

Definitions

Characterised by threat or threatening.

dialectal

Examples

“To be sure, the weather had looked "a bit threatensome," but every self-respecting woman had defied the elements in a much beribboned and befeathered head-gear.”

“The lightning-god was a suitable adornment of the light-giving lamp, and his threatensome attitude an excellent apotrópaion.”

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