- a variation of cataclysmic.
cataclysmal
Example Sentences
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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 William Dean Howells
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 Samuel Dill
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 Ernest Thompson Seton
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 Matilda Betham-Edwards
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 Chapman Cohen
