Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for OM'IN-OUS
OM'IN-OUS, a. [L. ominosus.]
- Foreboding or presaging evil; indicating a future evil, event; inauspicious. In the heathen worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart was accounted ominous. South.
- Foreshowing or exhibiting signs of good. Though he had a good ominous name to have made peace, nothing followed. Bacon.
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