All 3 Uses
calamity
in
Jane Eyre
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- In wandering round the shattered walls and through the devastated interior, I gathered evidence that the calamity was not of late occurrence.†
p. 490.2 *
- A dreadful calamity!†
p. 491.4
- I summoned strength to ask what had caused this calamity.†
p. 494.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(calamity) a disastrous event; or the distress resulting from it
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)