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Etymology

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From threaten +‎ -some.

Adjective

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threatensome (comparative more threatensome, superlative most threatensome)

  1. (dialectal) Characterised by threat or threatening.
    • 1902, Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 105, page 471:
      To be sure, the weather had looked "a bit threatensome," but every self-respecting woman had defied the elements in a much beribboned and befeathered head-gear.
    • 1925, Arthur Bernard Cook, Zeus, page 712:
      The lightning-god was a suitable adornment of the light-giving lamp, and his threatensome attitude an excellent apotrópaion.

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