Definition of Conflagrations

1. Noun. (plural of conflagration) ¹

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Definition of Conflagrations

1. conflagration [n] - See also: conflagration

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conflagrations

confiture
confitures
confix
confixative
confixed
confixes
confixing
conflab
conflabs
conflagrant
conflagrate
conflagrated
conflagrates
conflagrating
conflagration
conflagrations (current term)
conflagrative
conflagrator
conflagrators
conflagratory
conflate
conflated
conflates
conflating
conflation
conflations
conflict
conflict-ridden
conflict of interest
conflicted

Literary usage of Conflagrations

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

1. China and the Allies by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1901)
"CHAPTER XLII Camping grounds—The Board of Revenue—Ten conflagrations —Looting— ... No less than ten conflagrations were seen in the Imperial City, ..."

2. Fire-rating as a Science by Albert Flandreau Dean (1901)
"Metropolitan conflagrations Great city conflagrations, like tidal waves, ... The total of past conflagrations in theory might be distributed through a long ..."

3. Property Insurance: Comprising Fire and Marine Insurance, Corporate Surety by Solomon Stephen Huebner (1915)
"Fireproof Buildings in Recent conflagrations.—In the recent Baltimore and San Francisco conflagrations the fact was brought out very strikingly that many ..."

4. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"As from two sides two conflagrations sweep Dry woodlands or full copse of crackling bay, Or as, swift-leaping from the mountain-vales, Two flooded, ..."

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