All 3 Uses
apocalypse
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Notes of a Native Son
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- I had declined to believe in that apocalypse which had been central to my father's vision; very well, life seemed to be saying, here is something that will certainly pass for an apocalypse until the real thing comes along.†
Subsection 1 *apocalypse = an event involving terrible destruction
- I had declined to believe in that apocalypse which had been central to my father's vision; very well, life seemed to be saying, here is something that will certainly pass for an apocalypse until the real thing comes along.†
Subsection 1
- If ever, indeed, the violence which fills Harlem's churches, pool halls, and bars erupts outward in a more direct fashion, Harlem and its citizens are likely to vanish in an apocalyptic flood.†
Subsection 3apocalyptic = describing a terribly destructive event
Definitions:
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(apocalypse) an event involving terrible destruction that ends the world as we know it; or (especially when capitalized) the end of the world as prophesized in the Christian book of Revelation
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) At one time "apocalypse" referred to the unveiling of new ideas -- especially in early Jewish and Christian literature.