- a variation of cataclysmic.
cataclysmal
Example Sentences
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This cataclysmal desire drew me by day and by night.
From The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
Nothing short of the cataclysmal end of the world could have provided drama to match the stupendous stage-setting of that stormy sky.
From October Vagabonds by Richard Le Gallienne
This tells of the World, its beginning, its convulsions and its ending, and thus embraces the three minor cycles of the cosmogonical, the cataclysmal and the eschatological myths.
From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Daniel Garrison Brinton
Though all the world be filled with snow And fire and cataclysmal storm, I'll cross it just to lay my head Upon her bosom warm.
From The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems by Richard Le Gallienne
Lyall in England had shown that geological formations were evolutionary rather than cataclysmal.
From Browning and His Century by Helen Archibald Clarke
