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Apocalypse

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Noun

1. apocalypse

a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil

2. apocalypse, book of revelation, revelation, revelation of saint john the divine

the last book of the New Testament; contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John the Apostle

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Apocalypse

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noun
1. 
a prophetic disclosure or revelation
2. 
an event of great importance, violence, etc, like the events described in the Apocalypse
noun
Bible
(in the Vulgate and Douay versions of the Bible) the Book of Revelation

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Apocalypse

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noun
1. 
any of various Jewish and Christian pseudonymous writings (c. 200 b.c.-c. a.d. 300) depicting symbolically the ultimate destruction of evil and triumph of good
2. 
a disclosure regarded as prophetic; revelation
3. 
a cataclysmic event, esp. the sudden and violent end of the world
4.  [A-]
the last book of the New Testament; Revelation

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Apocalypse

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n.
1.
a. Apocalypse Abbr. Apoc. Bible The Book of Revelation.
b. Any of a number of anonymous Jewish or Christian texts from around the second century BC to the second century AD containing prophetic or symbolic visions, especially of the imminent destruction of the world and the salvation of the righteous.
2.
a. The end of the world, especially as described in one of these texts.
b. A great catastrophe that results in widespread destruction or the collapse of civilization: "The United States was calling in air strikes and heavy armor until we had the feeling that the whole thing was going to end in apocalypse" (Phillip Robertson).
3. A prophetic disclosure; a revelation.

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