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doome

doome is the obsolete spelling of doom.

Meaning of doom

Noun

doom (countable and uncountable, plural dooms)

  1. Destiny, especially terrible.
    • This, for the night; by day, the web and loom, / And homely houſhold-taſk, ſhall be her doom,a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The First Book of Homer's Ilias”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760...
  2. An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
    • unlike Vincent, he wasn't quite taken in by the outbreak of hopefulness on all sides. After all, nothing about the tanks or the process had been resolved; an air of doom still hung undisturbed over the project.2004, Arthur Miller, “The Turpentine Still”, in Southwest Review, volume 89, number 4, page 479
    Antonyms:
    fortune
  3. Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.
    • She halted her pacing steps as the ugly significance of Nicholas Caulfield's pending arrival washed over her. Ruin. Destitution. Doom settled like a heavy stone in her chest.2006, Sophie Jordan, Once upon a wedding night
  4. (countable, obsolete) A law.
    • "What ye will not that other men should do unto you, that do ye not unto other men." "From this one doom," comments Alfred, "a man may bethink him how he should judge every one rightly: he needs no other doombook."1915, Beatrice Adelaide Lees, Alfred the Great: the truth teller, maker of England, 848-899, page 211
  5. (countable, obsolete) A judgment or decision.
    • And there he learned of things and haps to come, / To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom.1600, Edward Fairfax, transl., Jerusalem Delivered, translation of Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso
  6. (countable, obsolete) A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
    • The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.1874, John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People

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Forms of doome

pluraldoomes

Questions about doome

What is doome the obsolete spelling of?
Doome is the obsolete spelling of doom.

Words near doome in the dictionary

  1. doomba
  2. doombas
  3. doombur
  4. doomburs
  5. doomcore
  6. doome
  7. doomed
  8. doomed if you do, doomed if you don't
  9. doomedness
  10. doomer
  11. doomerism

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