act of god
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.11 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An unforeseen occurrence beyond one's control, such as a natural disaster.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see act, of, God.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of act of God.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The action of “The Discovery of Heaven” combines the emotional melodrama of a telenovela with a sequence of events that an insurance lawyer would call acts of God."
- "Infrastructure failures tend to be treated like acts of God, but of course they aren't really."
- "Heavy rainfall is not the kind of exceptional phenomenon to which the Act of God exception applies."
- "In road and rail traffic liability is excluded for accidents which are due to circumstances amounting to an Act of God."
- "“Pardon me,” I said, preserving with an effort the polished suavity demanded from an English gentleman when chewing the rag with one of the other sex, “you're talking through the back of your fatheaded little neck. I did not trip over my flat feet. I was hurled into the depths by an Act of God, to wit, a totally unexpected dachshund getting between my legs.”"