calamity

Definition

An event resulting in great loss.

Etymology

From Middle French calamité, from Latin calamitās (“loss, damage; disaster”).

Example Sentences

• "Romeo come forth / Come forth thou fearfull man, / Affliction is enamor’d of thy parts: / And thou art wedded to calamitie."
• "Yet, at that moment, she felt as if the acquisition of these gems were a calamity. Their possession involved separation from her uncle, from every relic of home affections, and from all that yet lingered with her of her childhood."
• "And the village was deserted, the huts gaped black, rotting, all askew within the fallen enclosures. A calamity had come to it, sure enough."

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