cataclysmal

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Miss Quincey was quite shaken by this cataclysmal outbreak, this overturning and shattering of the old beacons and landmarks.

From Superseded by Sinclair, May

Ten seconds later this cataclysmal lunatic had reverted to sanity—a rather sheepish sanity.

From Secret Places of the Heart by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The whole structure of three united, happy lives was built upon these cataclysmal facts--yet she had never asked what thought they held of them!

From The Preliminaries And Other Stories by Comer, Cornelia A. P.

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

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

From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald