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Definition of Conflagration

1. Noun. A very intense and uncontrolled fire.

Definition of Conflagration

1. n. A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.

Definition of Conflagration

1. Noun. A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning. ¹

2. Noun. (figuratively) A large-scale conflict. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Conflagration

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conflagration

Literary usage of Conflagration

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

1. Daniel Defoe: His Life, and Recently Discovered Writings ; Extending from by Lee, William, Daniel Defoe (1869)
"General conflagration of the Moral World. MJ, Jan. 10. ... As they all allow the General conflagration to be many Ages in its Operation, and it being a ..."

2. Property Insurance by Lester William Zartman, William Hyde Price (1914)
"CHAPTER XVIII conflagration RESERVE l IT did not need the San Francisco fire to call to the attention of insurance men the importance of the subject of the ..."

3. The Medical Implications of Nuclear War by Frederic Solomon (1986)
"The growth of the area of the conflagration with weapon yield is difficult to ... If the radius of the conflagration area were scaled with peak overpressure ..."

4. Memoirs of Robert E. Lee: His Military and Personal History, Embracing a by Armistead Lindsay Long, Marcus Joseph Wright (1886)
"A Great conflagration.—Topography of the Coast.—Its Defences. ... To their amazement, it had acquired the proportions of a conflagration enveloping a ..."

5. The Lancet (1842)
"DESTRUCTION OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY А Г HAMBURG, IN THE RECENT conflagration WE beg to call the attention of our readers to the following appeal, ..."

6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1854)
"In the opinion of a general conflagration, the faith of the Christian very ... had been chosen for the origin and principal scene of the conflagration, ..."

7. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"Will any of your readers please to inform me where I shall find an account of this conflagration ? I think Napoleon adverted to it in his conversation with ..."

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