All 3 Uses of
calamity
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- You can judge the extremity of her calamities, that she, a woman of education and culture and distinguished family, should have consented to be my wife.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- It will be a year and a half ago soon since we found ourselves at last after many wanderings and numerous calamities in this magnificent capital, adorned with innumerable monuments.†
Chpt 1.2
- But I'll tell you what I have been thinking to myself of late, on my way here in the train, especially: didn't I contribute to all that... calamity, morally, in a way, by irritation or something of the sort.†
Chpt 4.1
Definition:
a disastrous event; or the distress resulting from it