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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The indistinct and magnified appearance of objects seen in particular states of the atmosphere. See

ppr.

Appearing above the surface, or indistinctly, at a distance.

looming

looming ‎(plural loomings)

The condition of something that looms or towers.
- Thomas Carlyle
  But if no world exist in the man; if nothing but continents of empty vapour, of greedy self-conceits, commonplace hearsays, and indistinct loomings of a sordid chaos exist in him, […]