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Cataclysm

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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(Gr. KaraKXvcr 6, a deluge), a great flood or deluge (q.v.). The term is used in geology to denote an v. 16 a overwhelming catastrophe which has produced sudden changes in the earth's surface; and also, figuratively, of any great and violent change which sweeps away the existing social or political order.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Cataclysm'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​c/cataclysm.html. 1910.
 
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