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Definition of Cataclysmically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cataclysmically
Literary usage of Cataclysmically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1914)
"... a process going on in the germ-plasm, as we see it go on in the somatic tissues,
so that the race was gradually to decline or cataclysmically to cease. ..."
2. Latin-American [mythology] by Hartley Burr Alexander (1920)
"As related by Sarmiento the first age was that of a sunless world inhabited by
a race of giants, who, owing to the sin of disobedience, were cataclysmically ..."
3. Christ, Christianity and the Bible by Isaac Massey Haldeman (1922)
"It is as instantaneous as when God of old said, "Let there be light," and light
burst over a world cataclysmically fallen into chaos. ..."
4. The Mythology of All Races by Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, John Arnott MacCulloch (1920)
"As related by Sarmiento the first age was that of a sunless world inhabited by
a race of giants, who, owing to the sin of disobedience, were cataclysmically ..."
5. A System of Psychology by Knight Dunlap (1912)
"and not be taught a pseudo-final system of facts which later must crumble
cataclysmically when he takes a new point of view. I have not attempted to write a ..."
6. Government Or Human Evolution by Edmond Kelly (1901)
"... if we at once take steps to bring about gradually what will otherwise happen
cataclysmically, we may avoid the ruin that such a calamity would involve. ..."
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