cataclysmal

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Fortunately, the approaching explosion, which would have been of a cataclysmal nature,—Stiffy was not a boy to do things by halves,—was averted by a change of demeanour on the part of the temptress.

From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian

Some cataclysmal upheaval would seem to account for such disrupture rather than the infinitely slow processes suggested by geological history.

From The Roof of France by Betham-Edwards, Matilda

Then, if they went into a flat that was nearly all studio, their furniture went back in a cataclysmal wave to the warehouse, where a ten-dollar room, a twelve-dollar room, would not dam the overflow.

From The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse by Howells, William Dean

The mind trained in submission to universal law will not shrink from a fate which awaits the universe by fire or cataclysmal change.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

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