Literary notes about Minatory (AI summary)
In literature, “minatory” is often employed as an adjective to invoke a sense of threat or impending doom. Authors use it to color dialogue and descriptions with an ominous tension that warns characters or readers of forthcoming peril, as when a character delivers a dire message or issues a threatening gesture [1][2]. The term is applied to both spoken language and environmental details—ranging from the minatory clangour of a distant bell [3] to a foreboding landscape that seems to portend disaster [4]—thereby enriching the narrative atmosphere. Its versatility in conveying menace and urgent warning is further demonstrated in political and religious discourses, where the minatory tone serves to underscore the seriousness of the situation [5][6].
- Jim Armine had been lunching with the Hayes, and brought a minatory message for Reggie.
— from The Rubicon by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson - "Tell a better lie next time, Stamer," said Timmons, shaking his minatory finger at the other.
— from Miracle Gold: A Novel (Vol. 2 of 3) by Richard Dowling - Presently, from out the jungle, there sounded the uneven, minatory clangour of the bell.
— from The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Beresford by Beresford, Charles William De la Poer Beresford, Baron - There was indeed no Aphrodite at all in my youthful Pantheon, but instead there was a mysterious and minatory gap.
— from The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - In Jeremiah and Ezekiel, too, the prophecies, previous to the destruction, are mainly minatory.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg - A minatory brief of April 28, 1236, addressed to him, is couched in the severest language.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
