Desolation /(?)/
Des·o·la·tion
Desolation
n.
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The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
Unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
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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.
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A place or country wasted and forsaken.
How is Babylon become a desolation!