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The Great Calamity   /greɪt kəlˈæməti/   Listen
The Great Calamity

noun
1.
A famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America).  Synonyms: the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Irish Famine.





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"The Great Calamity" Quotes from Famous Books



... Fourth State of Prayer—Earnest Exhortations to those who have attained to it not to go back nor to cease from Prayer, even if they fall—The great Calamity of going back ...
— The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus • Teresa of Avila


Words linked to "The Great Calamity" :   the Great Starvation, the Irish Famine, famine, the Great Hunger


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