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Act of god
noun
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Noun
- 1 An unforeseen occurrence beyond one's control, such as a natural disaster.
"They didn't get shot to death in hold-ups, strangled to death in rapes, stabbed to death in saloons, bludgeoned to death with axes by parents or children or die summarily by some other act of God."
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of act of God. alt-of
"Heavy rainfall is not the kind of exceptional phenomenon to which the Act of God exception applies."
- 3 a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events wordnet
- 4 Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see act, of, God.
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