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adjective

Calamitous adj.

Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. (Obs.) "Ten thousands of calamitous persons."

Producing, or attended with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy. "This sad and calamitous condition." "A calamitous prison"

Synonyms: Miserable; deplorable; distressful; afflictive; wretched; grievous; baleful; disastrous; adverse; unhappy; severe; sad; unfortunate.

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Etymology of 'Calamitous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Calamitous" Quotes from Famous Books

... to the conquered, than is involved in that between the States which compose the two sections of the Union. The condition of the weaker, should it sink from a state of independence and equality to one of dependence and subjection, would be more calamitous than ever before befell a civilized people. It is vain to think that, with such consequences before them, they will not resist; especially, when resistance may save them, and cannot render their condition worse. That this will take place, unless the stronger section desists from its course, ...

— Famous Americans of Recent Times • James Parton

... itself with our commercial existence so closely, as to require the most sagacious policy to eradicate it; at the same time it was the highest consideration for our magnanimity to interfere for that being whose thraldom and calamitous state had so long contributed to our wealth and commercial prosperity, before ...

— Observations Upon The Windward Coast Of Africa • Joseph Corry

... now calamitous and forlorn. Confiding in the acquisition of my aunt's patrimony, I had made no other provision for the future; I hated manual labour, or any task of which the object was gain. To be guided in my choice of occupations ...

— Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist - (A Fragment) • Charles Brockden Brown

... vestments of the Wu-ist priests are endowed with magical properties which are considered to enable the wearer to control the order of the world, to avert unseasonable and calamitous events, such as drought, untimely and superabundant rainfall, and eclipses. These powers are conferred by the decoration upon the dress. Upon the back of the chief vestment the representation of a range of mountains ...

— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith

... to inquire what turn the Jews themselves give to this prophecy.* There is good proof that the ancient Rabbins explained it of their expected Messiah: but their modern expositors concur, I think, in representing it as a description of the calamitous state, and intended restoration, of the Jewish people, who are here, as they say, exhibited under the character of a single person. I have not discovered that their exposition rests upon any critical arguments, or upon these in any other than ...

— Evidences of Christianity • William Paley

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