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Definition of Desolating
1. desolate [v] - See also: desolate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desolating
Literary usage of Desolating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs, Official and Personal: With Sketches of Travels Among the Northern by Thomas Loraine McKenney (1846)
"... effects of their wars—The accompaniments of European civilization still more
desolating—Obligations of Americans to arrest these destroying influences. ..."
2. Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America: During by John Davis (1803)
"Yellow Fever desolating the City. Em- hark for South-Carolina. U PON my landing
at New- York, my first care was to deliver a letter of recommendation which ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1864)
"... of desolating and destroying its own fair proportions? Is there any President,
any prince, any potentate, that would, ..."
4. Arctic Experiences: Containing Capt. George E. Tyson's Wonderful Drift on by Euphemia Vale Blake (1874)
"Flocks of Ducks.—Grotesque Misery.—A Statue of Famine.—A desolating Wave. —A
Foretaste of worse.—Manning the Boat in a new Fashion. ..."
5. Memoirs of a Life, Chiefly Passed in Pennsylvania, Within the Last Sixty by Alexander Graydon (1811)
"... enthusiastic republicanism on the one hand, and the most desolating and
dismaying system of despotism, which the world has yet beheld, on the other. ..."
6. Prophecies of Jesus: Or The Fulfillment of the Predictions of Our Saviour by John Gotlieb Matteson (1895)
"If the word "desolation" is supplied in both places, it reads "the daily desolation
and the transgression of desolation," thus presenting two desolating ..."
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