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MOMENTOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of very great significance
Example:
a momentous event
Classified under:
Similar:
important; significant (important in effect or meaning)
Derivation:
moment (having important effects or influence)
momentousness (utmost importance)
Context examples:
Her uncle's behaviour to her was then as nearly as possible what it had been before; she was sure he did not mean there should be any change, and that it was only her own conscience that could fancy any; but her aunt was soon quarrelling with her; and when she found how much and how unpleasantly her having only walked out without her aunt's knowledge could be dwelt on, she felt all the reason she had to bless the kindness which saved her from the same spirit of reproach, exerted on a more momentous subject.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Then he said that he had spoken in a light manner, and he hoped that if he had made a mistake in doing so on so grave, so momentous, an occasion for him, I would forgive him.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I try in vain to recall how I felt about it, and what its circumstances were; but it is not momentous in my recollection.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
