calamnity

WVWV, why is it that you do not contact state election officials so that you can do your "voter registration drives" without creating chaos, confusion and calamnity?

They're Back! Women's Voices Women Vote Sowing Confusion Again With "Registration Drive" 2008

Thou tremblest without doubt at the sight of that distraction which, amidst their splendid luxuries, agitates those farmers of the revenue, who fatten upon public calamnity -- who devour the substance of the orphan -- who consume the means of the widow -- who grind the hard earnings of the poor: thou shudderest at witnessing the remorse which rends the souls of those reverend criminals, whom the uninformed believe to be happy, whilst the contempt which they have for themselves, the unerring shafts of secret upbraidings, are incessantly revenging an outraged nation.

The System of Nature, Volume 2 Paul Henri Thiry Holbach 1756

Few lives have ever been so even and prosperous, so laden with substantial blessings, so shielded from calamnity. "

Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884