† diluvyn.
Obsolete.
= deluge n.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [noun]
streamc950
water floodOE
floodc1000
waterOE
diluvya1325
waterganga1325
flowinga1340
delugec1374
diluvec1386
Noah's floodc1390
overflowing1430
inundation1432
flowa1450
surrounding1449
over-drowninga1500
spate1513
float1523
drowning1539
ravine1545
alluvion1550
surundacion1552
watershot1567
overflow1589
ravage1611
inunding1628
surroundera1642
water breach1669
flooding1799
debacle1802
diluviation1816
deluging1824
superflux1830
whelm1842
come1862
floodage1862
sheet-flood1897
flash flooding1939
flash-flood1940
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [noun] > Biblical
Noah's floodOE
the floodOE
diluvya1325
delugec1386
diluvec1386
sin-flood1550
cataclysm1637
Noachian deluge1711
a1325 Prose Psalter xlv[i]. 4 Þe deluuy [printed deluuþ] gladeþ þe hous of heuen, þe almyȝtful halwed Noe and his.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Pet. ii. 5 Bringynge in the diluuye, or greet flood, to the world of vnpitouse men.
c1393 G. Chaucer Scogan 14 Þu causist þis deluuye of pestelence.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxiv. 109 Þir three sonnes of Noe after þe diluuy parted amanges þam all þe erthe.
1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 9v Soche vnspekable fylthynesse..as brought vpon them the great dyluuye or vnyuersall flod.
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