Definition of Devastations

1. Noun. (plural of devastation) ¹

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Definition of Devastations

1. devastation [n] - See also: devastation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Devastations

devanned
devanning
devaporation
devaprasnam
devas
devascularisation
devascularization
devast
devastate
devastated
devastates
devastating
devastatingly
devastation
devastational
devastations (current term)
devastative
devastator
devastators
devasted
devasting
devasts
devata
devatas
devein
deveined
deveining
deveins
devel
develed

Literary usage of Devastations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Southern History of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1866)
"Sheridan's devastations of the Valley.—" Barn-burning."— An affair of Rosser's cavalry. ... devastations ..."

2. In Darkest Africa, Or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of by Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"... headmen and their raids—Remedy for preventing wholesale devastations — Crusade preached by Cardinal ..."

3. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including by Isabella Lucy Bird (1888)
"... devastations produced by Floods—The Yadate Pass—The Force of Water—Difficulties thicken— A Primitive ..."

4. The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution by Philip Morin Freneau, Fred Lewis Pattee (1907)
"... THE ENGLISH devastations AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON 1 Their power abused ! that power may soon descend: Years, not remote, may see their glory end: — The ..."

5. The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Aurélien Courson (1872)
"Unexpected tolerance of the ferocious Penda towards his sou and his converted subjects. But he continues his devastations in Northumbria. ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In his eleven military campaigns he invaded, subdued, and conquered, after a series of devastations and raids, all the regions north, south, east, ..."

7. The Story of South Africa, the Cape Colony, Natal, Orange Free State, South by George McCall Theal (1894)
"THE WARS AND devastations OF TSHAKA. AT this period nearly the whole of South Africa beyond the borders of the Cape Colony was in a state of violent ..."

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