"looming" meaning in English

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          "text": "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, what will be the use of 'light' to show us that?",
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        "gerund of loom: the condition of something that looms or towers."
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          "towers",
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      "rhymes": "-uːmɪŋ"
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