Definition of Cataclysms

1. Noun. (plural of cataclysm) ¹

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Definition of Cataclysms

1. cataclysm [n] - See also: cataclysm

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cataclysms

catachreses
catachresis
catachrestic
catachrestical
catachrestically
catachronobiology
cataclasm
cataclastic
cataclinal
cataclysm
cataclysmal
cataclysmic
cataclysmically
cataclysmist
cataclysmists
cataclysms (current term)
catacomb
catacombs
catacorner
catacoustic
catacoustics
catacrotic
catacrotic pulse
catacrotism
catadicrotic
catadicrotic pulse
catadicrotism
catadidymus
catadioptric
catadioptrics

Literary usage of Cataclysms

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

1. The Abode of Snow: Observations on a Journey from Chinese Tibet to the by Andrew Wilson (1875)
"... JUNCTION OF THE LEE AND SPITI RIVERS GEOLOGY HIMALAYAN VALLEYS cataclysms—NAMES FOR RIVERS. * JUST after I had managed to get the better of my illness, ..."

2. Lectures on the Darwinian Theory by Arthur Milnes Marshall (1894)
"Refutation of Cuvier's doctrine of cataclysms. Demonstration that as regards the crust of the earth, the causes now in action, and the influences now at ..."

3. A Memoir on the Indian Surveys by Clements Robert Markham (1878)
"He also gives an account of the tremendous cataclysms which periodically take place, especially in the valleys of the Indus and Sutlej. ..."

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