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Synonyms for doom

Grammar : Noun
Spell : doom
Phonetic Transcription : dum

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Définition of doom

Origin :
  • Old English dom "law, judgment, condemnation," from Proto-Germanic *domaz (cf. Old Saxon and Old Frisian dom, Old Norse domr, Old High German tuom, Gothic doms "judgment, decree"), from PIE root *dhe- (cf. Sanskrit dhaman- "law," Greek themis "law," Lithuanian dome "attention"), literally "to set, put" (see factitious). A book of laws in Old English was a dombec. Modern sense of "fate, ruin, destruction" is c.1600, from the finality of the Christian Judgment Day.
  • noun fate or decision, usually unpleasant
Example sentences :
  • "I don't see anything like a doom about it, my dear," said he.
  • Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
  • His voice had become weighty with authority and measured with doom.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • My doom is fixed—fixed by my own folly—my own rash, headstrong folly.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 3 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • The star that guides it is our guide, and in the tempest that menaces we behold our own doom!
  • Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • In the fire of last night the hand of Allah wrote their doom.
  • Extract from : « Leila, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • But the prince was to have his day of triumph before the doom.
  • Extract from : « Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew » by Josephine Preston Peabody
  • It was a real miracle that on that day he escaped from the doom intended for him.
  • Extract from : « The Black Tulip » by Alexandre Dumas (Pere)
  • He went to his doom as the foolish moth flies to the candle.
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
  • All complaint of my own doom had vanished, now that I began to do her the justice of love.
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
  • Neither of the others had done so, since their doom was pronounced.
  • Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens

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