Lexicographical Neighbors of Diluvia
Literary usage of Diluvia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hermathena by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (1907)
"This makes very good sense: but perhaps the plural diluvia may lead to the
interpretation 'where it will take floods like those of Deucalion to enable fish ..."
2. Genesis, Critically and Exegetically Expounded by August Dillmann (1897)
"The Flood falls within the course of human history, and has therefore nothing to
do with the geological diluvia. The long diluvial period of the geologists, ..."
3. The Lancet (1898)
"In such cramped premises as these it is impossible to prevent the diluvia from
the cowsheds entering the bakehouse, to say nothing of the water from the ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"... occurs, according to our author, when the brain and nervous system are poisoned
by contagion, or by concentrated foul human diluvia, as in gaols, ..."
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