Definition of The Great Calamity

1. Noun. A famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America).


Lexicographical Neighbors of The Great Calamity

thay
the
the 'G'
the Alps
the Americas
the Argentine
the British
the British are coming
the Buddha
the City
the Crane
the Depression
the English
the Fates
the Gloomy Dean
the Great Calamity (current term)
the Great Commoner
the Great Compromiser
the Great Depression
the Great Elector
the Great Hunger
the Great Starvation
the Green, White and Gold
the Hill
the Himalaya
the Indies
the Irish
the Irish Famine
the Iron Duke
the Jersey Lillie

Literary usage of The Great Calamity

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

1. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Richard Linthicum, Trumbull White (1906)
"... Where the Homeless We« Gathered—Rich and Poor Share Food and Bed Alike—All Distinctions of Wealth and Social Position Wiped Out by the Great Calamity. ..."

2. The Despatches of William Perwich: English Agent in Paris, 1669-1677 by William Perwich, Minnie Beryl Curran (1903)
"I mentioned something in my last about the Huguenots, to which I have now to ad the great calamity falling upon them. The nobility, at the King's example in ..."

3. History of the Hebrews: Their Political, Social and Religious Development by Frank Knight Sanders (1914)
"THE HEBREW PEOPLE IMMEDIATELY AFTER the Great Calamity. (II Ki. 25:22, 26; Jer. 40-44; Ezek. 25-32; Lamentations). (376.) This material combines to afford a ..."

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