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diluvium
or di·lu·vi·on
[ dih-loo-vee-uhm ]
noun
, Geology Now Rare.
, plural di·lu·vi·a [dih-, loo, -vee-, uh], di·lu·vi·ums.
- a coarse surficial deposit formerly attributed to a general deluge but now regarded as glacial drift.
diluvium
/ daɪˈluːvɪəm; dɪ- /
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Word History and Origins
Origin of diluvium1
C19: from Latin: flood, from dīluere to wash away; see dilute
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Example Sentences
Such language you never heard, such a diluvium of profanity, such double-shotted d—ns!
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Whence then, it may be asked, the masses of compact reddish clay and pebble diluvium, which exist?
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This alluvium rests on the red marl-clay, or mineral diluvium; the latter of which is uniformly found on penetrating it.
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Mine à La Motte is situated in the mineral diluvium, and is distant about two miles from the granite on Blackford's fork.
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Examples are manuatus est for furatus est; abluvium for diluvium.
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