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 Om·i·nous a.  Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
    He had a good ominous name to have made a peace.   --Bacon.
    In the heathen worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart was accounted ominous.   --South.
 -- Om*i*nous*ly, adv. -- Om*i*nous*ness, n.
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