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/dˌɛsəlˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Desolation n.

The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation. "Unto the end of the war desolations are determined."

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."

A place or country wasted and forsaken. "How is Babylon become a desolation!"

Synonyms: Waste; ruin; destruction; havoc; devastation; ravage; sadness; destitution; melancholy; gloom; gloominess.

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Etymology of 'Desolation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Desolation" Quotes from Famous Books

... most airy part of the town. Every invalid who goes away from home in search of health, knows how dreary a lodging seems after the familiar scenes and comfortable rooms of his own dwelling. But Grace was prevented from feeling the desolation and discomfort which so many have felt, for the Duchess of Northumberland herself furnished the lodgings with every requisite, thus contributing very greatly to the ...

— Grace Darling - Heroine of the Farne Islands • Eva Hope

... back of all that I had the feeling that I was caught in the same fate that had shut in upon them; and was even worse off than they had been, since I had no one to fight my life away with but must take it myself when I found my solitude in that rotten desolation more than ...

— In the Sargasso Sea - A Novel • Thomas A. Janvier

... thirtieth year after the ruin of the city, Esdras was in Babylon and troubled because of the desolation of Sion. He acknowledged to God the sins of the people, yet complained that the heathen who were lords over them were more wicked than they. Uriel, the angel, then said that when Adam transgressed God's statutes the way was made ...

— The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. - Religion and Philosophy • Various

... and her sister, accompanied by their hostess and her brother, Colonel Denslow, seized the first favorable opportunity to call at the rooms of Mr. Quentin. They found him the next morning sitting up in a comfortable chair, the picture of desolation, notwithstanding the mighty efforts of Dickey Savage and the convivial millionaire. The arrival of the party put new life into the situation, and it was not long before Phil found ...

— Castle Craneycrow • George Barr McCutcheon

... nothing to be said, he could only go; and as he walked away wearily, for he had been up most of the night, his heart was filled with rage against the cruelty of the world. He knew the hopelessness of the search for work and the desolation which is harder to bear than hunger. He was thankful not to have to believe in God, for then such a condition of things would be intolerable; one could reconcile oneself to existence only ...

— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham

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