Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or an instance of desolating.
- n. The state of being desolate.
- n. Devastation; ruin: a drought that brought desolation to the region.
- n. The state of being abandoned or forsaken; loneliness: a sense of utter desolation following the death of his parents.
- n. Wretchedness; misery.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of desolating; destruction or expulsion of inhabitants; devastation; a laying waste.
- n. A desolate place; a waste, devastated, or lifeless place or region.
- n. A desolate or desolated condition or state; destruction; ruin.
- n. Personal affliction; the state of being desolate or forsaken; sadness.
- n. Synonyms Ravage.
- n. 3 and Misery, wretchedness, gloom.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
- n. The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness; destitution; gloominess.
- n. A place or country wasted and forsaken.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
- n. The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness; destitution; gloominess.
- n. A place or country wasted and forsaken.
WordNet 3.0
- n. sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned
- n. an event that results in total destruction
- n. a bleak and desolate atmosphere
- n. the state of being decayed or destroyed
Etymologies
- Ultimately from Latin dēsōlātiō. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And now we see for what the land perishes; all this desolation is the desert of their deeds and the performance of”
“His faithful, His costly garments, His disciples, are all stripped from Him; and His desolation is made the more evident by this complete annihilation of colour.”
“The desolation is as Romantic as that of Freidrich's "The Wanderer", where a lone figure looks out over the sublime Alpine wilds.”
“I threw myself down on the island ground, like a dead man, and drowned in desolation swooned away, nor did I return to my senses till next morning, when the sun rose and revived me.”
“I'm left with a sense that it is out in desolation's reach, perhaps in the southwest.”
“There were times that I was in desolation and destitute for some kind of reprieve.”
“Utter desolation is meant. right hand -- the place of a protector (Ps 110: 5). cared for -- literally, "sought after," to do good.”
“-- The sight of a place hallowed by the most endearing and sacred associations, but now lying in desolation and ruins, made the wellsprings of their piety and patriotism gush out afresh.”
“I know that thy desolation is impending according to Zechariah's prophecy.”
“The best exposition of this part of Ezekiel's prediction of Jerusalem's desolation is Jeremiah's lamentation of it, Lam.iv. 3, 4, &c., and v. 10, where he pathetically describes the terrible famine that was in”
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