cataclysmal

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Something cataclysmal happens to the House of Commons, or the Hippodrome, or Tottenham Hotspur.

From The Lighter Side of School Life by Hay, Ian

On the one side, conversion has been dwelt upon as a cataclysmal epoch in a person's life, produced, negatively, by an act of self-surrender, and, positively, by a supernatural act of grace.

From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Cohen, Chapman

Very rarely is there a spate, an upheaval, and a cataclysmal sweep that bursts the ice and ends its reign in an hour or two.

From Rolf in the Woods by Seton, Ernest Thompson

Lyall in England had shown that geological formations were evolutionary rather than cataclysmal.

From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald

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 Brinton, Daniel Garrison