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English Dictionary: disastrousness by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Disastrous \Dis*as"trous\, a. [Cf. F. d[82]sastreux. See
      {Disaster}.]
      1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious;
            ill-boding. [Obs.]
  
                     The moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      2. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate;
            calamitous; ill-fated; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous
            termination of an undertaking.
  
                     Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances. --Shak.
            -- {Dis*as"trous*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*as"trous*ness}, n.
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