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- noun Plural form of
calamity .
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Examples
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Compare Job's similar recognition of God's hand in calamities, Job 1: 21; 2: 10; and David's, 2Sa 16: 5-11.
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The very scene of thy calamities is to be the scene of thy deliverance.
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But he will not, as I do, call on God in calamities verging on death.
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The shortening of calamities is a kindness God often grants for the elects 'sake.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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151 This is no fanciful aera: the Pagans reckoned their calamities from the reign of their hero.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Iysis, because it put an end to a drought; or from its anaschesis, or relief from calamities, which is the origin of the Athenian name
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Without true development, the rosary of calamities, which is called poverty, far from being solved, is multiplied.
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That these inconveniencies and hardships kept them in a state of poverty and misery, and that the chief cause of all their calamities was the strict adherence of the Trustees to their chimerical and impracticable scheme of settlement, by which the people were refused the obvious means of subsistence, and cut off from all prospects of success.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 Alexander Hewatt
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The prophets reiterated to the people of Israel that their calamities were the result of their having ceased to follow in the ways of the Lord.
Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman
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In fact, God had often chastised them for their idolatry (see Jud 2: 14); but it is the curse of impiety not to perceive the hand of God in calamities. victuals -- Men cast away the bread of the soul for the bread that perisheth (De 8: 3; Joh 6: 27).
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