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I have long been mortified that for these three years you have seen it only in winter: it is now in the height of its greenth, blueth, gloomth, honey-suckle and seringahood.

—The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2

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Gloominess. [Rare.] The gloomth of abbeys and cathedrals. Walpole, Letters, III. 40. Strawberry, with all its painted glass and gloomth, looked as gay when I came home as Mrs. Cornelis's ball room. Walpole, Letters, III. 331.

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I have long been mortified that for these three years you have seen it only in winter: it is now in the height of its greenth, blueth, gloomth, honey-suckle and seringahood. — The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
What a pretty circumstance is the little river! and so far from the position being insipid, to me it has a tranquil cheerfulness that harmonizes with the house, and seems to have been the judicious selection of a wealthy abbot, who avoided ostentation, but did not choose austere gloomth. — The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4

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from gloom + -th.

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