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cataclasm|ˈkætəklæz(ə)m|
[ad. Gr. κατάκλασµα breakage, f. κατα-κλᾶν to break down, break off.]
A break or disruption.
1829Southey Sir T. More II. 201 The cataclasms of the moral and social world. 1834― Doctor cxxiii. (1862) 304 The history of the human race is but a parenthesis between two cataclasms of the globe which it inhabits. 1870Bowen Logic ix. 301 To suppose that there was any Cataclasm, any violent disruption of what is the usual course of nature.
Hence cataˈclasmic a.
1888H. S. Holland Christ or Eccles. 37 Something abrupt, violent, cataclasmic. |