destruction (destrukshon)

[ also destruison, F. destruction = Sp. destruccion = Pg. destruição = It. distruzione, a man or a forest. And 5 myle fro Sarphen is the Cytee of Sydon of the whiche Citee Dydo was Lady, that was Eneas Wyf aftre the Destruccioun of Troye. Mandeville , Travels, p. 30. The me agers of Cornewaile and of Orcanye com to hem and tolde hem the lo e and the distruxion of the Sarazins that dide thourgh ther londes. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 172. There was a deadly destruction throughout all the city. 1 Sam. v. 11. If material equality is ever to be secured at all, it will be secured only by the destruction of civilization, not by any distribution of the finer existing fruits of it. W. H. Mallock , Social Equality, p. 39. 2. The state of being destroyed; ruin. When that which we immortal thought, We saw so near destruction brought, We felt what you did then endure, And tremble yet, as not secure. Such longings, as she knew, To swift destruction all her glory drew. IMG:content-2488.png:[blocks in formation] The doctrine that states the time of repentance destruc tively to a pious life. South , Sermons, VII. vi.