Narrative in which a great flood destroys a civilization, commonly as divine retribution.
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Examples for "deluge"
Examples for "deluge"
1The deluge of information is expected to increase efficiency and lower prices.
2The program has struggled under a deluge of thousands of unprocessed cases.
3Blistering heat can turn to a freezing deluge in minutes, Sillerud said.
4The number of malware attacks on point-of-sale systems is becoming a deluge.
5We ignored a deluge of irrepressible questions I could not answer now.
1The Hindoos believed in the flood myth.
2A few specimens will serve as examples of all these American flood myths.
3Flood myths are found in many mythologies both in the Old World and the New.
4"Hasisadra's Adventure," published in the "Nineteenth Century" for June, completed his long-contemplated examination of the Flood myth.
1The legend begins with a deluge myth; a cataclysm ended a period of human existence.
2Indeed, deluge myths were widespread in the "New World".
3(1) An example of a Deluge myth in Africa, where M. Lenormant found none.
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