| 单词 | the general or universal deluge |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe general or universal deluge 2. spec. The great Flood in the time of Noah (also called the general or universal deluge). ΘΚΠ 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 c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋765 God dreynte al the world at the diluge [v.r. diluve]. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) xlviii. 70 The deluge or gaderyng of waters in the dayes of Noe. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 194 Jaffa, a port whiche was builded before the diludge. 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. i. 8 In the generall deluge, wherein all mankinde suffered for their sinnes a plague of waters. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 123 From the Days of the General Deluge. 1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. 46 It must have been worn at the deluge. < as lemmas |
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