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Antonyms for calamities

Grammar : Noun
Spell : kuh-lam-i-tee
Phonetic Transcription : kəˈlæm ɪ ti

Definition of calamities

Origin :
  • early 15c., from Middle French calamite (14c.), from Latin calamitatem (nominative calamitas) "damage, loss, failure; disaster, misfortune, adversity," origin obscure. Early etymologists associated it with calamus "straw" (see shawm); but it is perhaps from a lost root preserved in incolumis "uninjured," from PIE *kle-mo-, from base *kel- "to strike, cut" (see hilt).
  • noun disaster; tragedy
Example sentences :
  • All their calamities, except the plague, were the foreseen results of their own decision.
  • Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell
  • Others have been saved before now from calamities yet deeper than ours.
  • Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell
  • Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
  • Our forefathers had their own ways of accounting for each of these calamities.
  • Extract from : « On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge » by Thomas H. Huxley
  • The calamities that lie in ambush for us are ever present to our thoughts.
  • Extract from : « Sir Jasper Carew » by Charles James Lever
  • From this one theme have arisen, most, if not all, the calamities of the country.
  • Extract from : « The O'Donoghue » by Charles James Lever
  • From the hour he walked out of the circus our calamities began.
  • Extract from : « A Day's Ride » by Charles James Lever
  • I wish I could dare to hope that this was to be the end of the calamities.
  • Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. » by Charles James Lever
  • Why do we find the present calamities of war charged to economic causes?
  • Extract from : « The Ethics of Coperation » by James Hayden Tufts
  • His life 'is an Iliad of calamities, a chain of misfortunes.
  • Extract from : « Erasmus and the Age of Reformation » by Johan Huizinga

Synonyms for calamities

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