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Definition of Scourge of the Gods
1. Noun. King of the Huns; the most successful barbarian invader of the Roman Empire (406-453).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scourge Of The Gods
Literary usage of Scourge of the Gods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Egypt by Evelyn Baring Cromer (1908)
"Then the scourge of the gods, whose time for avenging past misdeeds had come,
was at once applied in the following practical shape. ..."
2. Modern Egypt by Evelyn Baring Cromer (1908)
"Then the scourge of the gods, whose time for avenging past misdeeds had come,
was at once applied in the following practical shape. ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1890)
"... the scourge of the gods of the ancients, against which therapeutic measures
are necessarily futile, but nevertheless its ofttimes ..."
4. The Grameid: An Heroic Poem Descriptive of the Campaign of Viscount Dundee by James Philip (1888)
"The faithless presbyter, the author of the accursed Covenant, the scourge of the
gods, the sink of evil, the plague of piety, the bitter pest of the earth, ..."
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