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Definition of Cataclysms
1. cataclysm [n] - See also: cataclysm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cataclysms
Literary usage of Cataclysms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Abode of Snow: Observations on a Journey from Chinese Tibet to the by Andrew Wilson (1875)
"... JUNCTION OF THE LEE AND SPITI RIVERS GEOLOGY HIMALAYAN VALLEYS cataclysms—NAMES
FOR RIVERS. * JUST after I had managed to get the better of my illness, ..."
2. Lectures on the Darwinian Theory by Arthur Milnes Marshall (1894)
"Refutation of Cuvier's doctrine of cataclysms. Demonstration that as regards the
crust of the earth, the causes now in action, and the influences now at ..."
3. A Memoir on the Indian Surveys by Clements Robert Markham (1878)
"He also gives an account of the tremendous cataclysms which periodically take
place, especially in the valleys of the Indus and Sutlej. ..."
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