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plural apocalypses
A revelation, especially of supernatural events. examples
(Christianity) The unveiling of events prophesied in the Revelation; the second coming and the end of life on Earth; global destruction. examples
(Christianity) The Book of Revelation. examples
A disaster; a cataclysmic event; destruction or ruin. quotations examples
Man has forgotten the soul and thus doomed his civilization to apocalypse.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 180
The Spanish mission in America soon became not so much crusade as apocalypse.
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 699