Momentous meaning - momentous

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The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Where she could be placed became a subject of most melancholy and momentous consultation.

As in his active career he had wrought organic changes in the ordering, direction and control of fleets, so by his historic studies, pursued after his retirement, he helped greatly to effect, if he did not exclusively initiate, an equally momentous change in the popular, and even the professional, way of regarding sea-power and its conditions.

Or to put it more exactly, the "Apostolic Fathers" represent, chronologically in the main and still more from the religious and theological standpoint, the momentous process of 1 Cotelier included the Acts of Martyrdom of Clement, Ignatius and Polycarp; and those of Ignatius and Polycarp are still often printed by editors.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Our client had suddenly burst into the room with an explosive energy which told of some new and momentous development.

There are obviously specific signs for many words available in sign language that are more appropriate for daily usage.