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Definition of The Great Starvation
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 Starvation
Literary usage of The Great Starvation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of General Or Experimental Pathology for Students and Practitioners by Walter Sydney Lazarus-Barlow (1904)
"... the endothelial cells must suffer less than the tissue cells from lack of
nutrition. The great starvation of the tissues of the limb in this ..."
2. The Life of Oscar Wilde by Robert Harborough Sherard (1906)
"... the pathetic proof of this natural hunger for applause, which gives to the
great starvation of literary artists its keenest pang. ..."
3. Ancient Civilizations of Mexico and Central America by Herbert Joseph Spinden (1922)
"1018 The great starvation takes place. 1058 Many strange things happen in Tula.
The demons arrive. 1059 Two armies attack the population. ..."
4. Ancient Civilizations of Mexico and Central America by Herbert Joseph Spinden (1922)
"1018 The great starvation takes place. 1058 Many strange things happen in Tula.
The demons arrive. 1059 Two armies attack the population. Despotism begins. ..."
5. Buffalo Medical Journal (1901)
"The theory of necrosis as noted in Griffith's case may be the same as that noted
in cholera, due to the great starvation of the tissues for water, ..."
6. As We are and as We May be by Walter Besant (1903)
"In the first place, it can do nothing, absolutely nothing, to relieve the great
starvation and misery which lies all about ..."
7. As We are and as We May be by Walter Besant (1903)
"In the first place, it can do nothing, absolutely nothing, to relieve the great
starvation and misery which lies all about ..."
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