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calamity (iou)



calamity noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French calamite from Latin calamitas: see -ITY.]
Adversity; deep distress. LME.
S. Johnson So full is the world of calamity, that every source of pleasure is polluted.
A grievous disaster. M16.
E. Wilson And all the kinds of calamities befell them: fires and typhoid epidemics.
Comb.: calamity-howler, Calamity Jane N. Amer. a prophet of disaster.