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Webster 1913 Edition

Impendency

{

Im-pend′ence

,

Im-pend′en-cy

, }

Noun.

The state of impending; the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon; also, that which impends.

“Impendence of volcanic cloud.”

Ruskin.

Syn. – imminence, imminency, impendence, forthcomingness.