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Definition
a disastrous event; or the distress resulting from it
- In wandering round the shattered walls and through the devastated interior, I gathered evidence that the calamity was not of late occurrence.Chapter 36 (51% in)
- A dreadful calamity! such an immense quantity of valuable property destroyed: hardly any of the furniture could be saved.Chapter 36 (62% in)
- I summoned strength to ask what had caused this calamity.Chapter 36 (95% in)
There are no more uses of "calamity" in Jane Eyre.
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