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Definition of The great calamity
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 Calamity
Literary usage of The great calamity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Richard Linthicum, Trumbull White (1906)
"... Where the Homeless We« Gathered—Rich and Poor Share Food and Bed Alike—All
Distinctions of Wealth and Social Position Wiped Out by the Great Calamity. ..."
2. The Despatches of William Perwich: English Agent in Paris, 1669-1677 by William Perwich, Minnie Beryl Curran (1903)
"I mentioned something in my last about the Huguenots, to which I have now to ad
the great calamity falling upon them. The nobility, at the King's example in ..."
3. History of the Hebrews: Their Political, Social and Religious Development by Frank Knight Sanders (1914)
"THE HEBREW PEOPLE IMMEDIATELY AFTER the great calamity. (II Ki. 25:22, 26; Jer.
40-44; Ezek. 25-32; Lamentations). (376.) This material combines to afford a ..."
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