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Definition of Desolated
1. desolate [v] - See also: desolate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desolated
Literary usage of Desolated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1848)
"and which the leaders of German mercenaries in his service desolated and disputed.
Ш. was filled by Innocent HI. ; a name second only, and hardly second, ..."
2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"... although they furnish an important guarantee against the famines, which, as
recently as 1866, desolated the Province. Financial Aspects. ..."
3. The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline & Fall of the by William Russell, Charles Coote (1822)
"A furious civil war; which long desolated both Italy and Germany, 1322 f^lle
Bavarian assembled a powerful army ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"After a time the desolated locality tempted the settlement of some barbarian
Asiatic horde, such as the steppes of that continent could furnish even now. ..."
5. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). State Historian (1900)
"Indian Raids hare Destroyed Crops, Terrified the People and desolated the
Frontier—Exorbitant Charges for Meat. ..."
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