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apocalypse

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "revelation, disclosure," from Church Latin apocalypsis "revelation," from Greek apokalyptein "uncover, disclose, reveal," from apo- "from" (see apo -) + kalyptein "to cover, conceal" (see Calypso ). The Christian end-of-the-world story is part ...

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil the last book of the New Testament; contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John the apostle ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context countable biblical English) The written account of a revelation of hidden things given by God to a chosen prophet.

Usage examples of apocalypse.

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If ever the four riders of the Apocalypse appeared in the flesh, it would be in the form of the four men gasconading down the road toward the small kirk where she and the other women had taken refuge.

The Epic of Dante is Johannite and Gnostic, an audacious application, like that of the Apocalypse, of the figures and numbers of the Kabalah to the Christian dogmas, and a secret negation of every thing absolute in these dogmas.

Where the street named after the Storm of the Apocalypse narrowed suddenly, the carriage path became a muddy track of broken cobbles and shattered pottery, the tall, once royal nut trees giving way to desert scrub.

Abraham, taught to the Egyptian priesthood by Joseph, recovered and purified by Moses, concealed under symbols in the Bible, revealed by the Saviour to Saint John, and contained, entire, under hieratic figures analogous to those of all antiquity, in the Apocalypse of that Apostle.

The Apocalypse, that sublime Kabalistic and prophetic Summary of all the occult figures, divides its images into three Septenaries, after each of which there is silence in Heaven.

It upstaged Ragnarok, dwarfed Armageddon, mocked Apocalypse, overshadowed the Qiyamah, outdid the Kali Yuga, ruined the prophecy of Maitreya Buddha.

These ancient survivors had ridden out the human apocalypse as they had survived so many before: by living off the gruesome brown food chain of the dying lands, by burrowing into the welcoming mud in drought.

The rejection of the Enlightenment tradition is especially true of the millenarian Christians in the United States, who believe that the restoration of Israeli rule over the entire biblical Kingdom of David is an essential precondition of the Apocalypse.

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Between the cultivated land and the mountains there is no hilliness -the mountains make a dramatic barrier beyond which it is easy to believe that a place such as the Scholomance, where Count Dracula learned his dark wisdom, exists - indeed, from which the Four Horsemen might come riding down to announce the Apocalypse.

Structurally, the political career undertaken by Isky Harappa transforms the novel from family chronicle to political satire and darkens its black comedy to the point of apocalypse.

The most striking demonstration of this was provided by the Hitlerian apocalypse of 1945.

The Kabalistic book of the Apocalypse is represented as closed with Seven Seals.

Alan Bechtold, who ran a small semiprofessional publishing outfit he called Apocalypse Press, wanted to put out a series of limited printings of individual science fiction stories especially written for the purpose.