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minatory

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈmɪn.ə.tɔːɹ.iː/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aimnortyStarts with MEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

Word origin

Borrowed from Middle French minatoire, from Late Latin minātōrius. Compare menace.

Used in a sentence

  • […]the Place de Grève, with its thirty thousand Regulars, its whole irregular Saint-Antoine and Saint-Marceau, is one minatory mass of clear or rusty steel;[…]
  • Number 3, Lauriston Gardens wore an ill-omened and minatory look.
  • […]her father quietly addressed a few words, by letter, to George Flack. This communication was not of a minatory order; it expressed on the contrary the loose sociability which was the essence of Mr. Dosson's nature.

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