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- The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
- The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness; destitution; gloominess.
- A place or country wasted and forsaken.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Des`o*la"tion (?), n. [F.
désolation, L. desolatio.] 1.
The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of
inhabitants; depopulation.
Unto the end of the war desolations are
determined. Dan. ix. 26.
2. The state of being desolated or laid
waste; ruin; solitariness; destitution; gloominess.
You would have sold your king to slaughter, . . .
And his whole kingdom into desolation.
Shak.
3. A place or country wasted and
forsaken.
How is Babylon become a
desolation! Jer. l. 23.
Syn. -- Waste; ruin; destruction; havoc; devastation;
ravage; sadness; destitution; melancholy; gloom; gloominess.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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