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Onslaught

noun

A sudden and severe onset of trouble.

(military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons). Synonyms: attack, onrush, onset.

The rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written). Synonyms: barrage, bombardment, outpouring. "A bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake"

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... history, averred that the Church had never concealed the esteem it had for science, called heresies impure miasmas, and treated Buddhism and other religions with such contempt that he apologized for even soiling his Catholic prose by onslaught on ...

— Against The Grain • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... representative, and she would, I think, have ended by talking to many others; but, just at the psychological moment, a woman rushed out of the line, seized Her Majesty's hand and kissed it—and Victoria, startled and possibly fearing a general onslaught, hurriedly passed on. ...

— The Story of a Pioneer - With The Collaboration Of Elizabeth Jordan • Anna Howard Shaw

... resentful at the sharpness of her guest's unprovoked onslaught, Damaris had dropped the little bunch of trinkets and backed into her corner ...

— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet

... their theories had crumbled. He might come back to her again—she might go forth to meet him—but the bloom had gone from their dreams—in the reunion she saw neither permanence nor abiding. The strongest of her instincts—the one that made for the blood she bore—had quivered beneath the onslaught of his accusation, but had not bent. Wherever and whenever the struggle came she stood, as the Battles had always stood, for the clan. Be it right or wrong, true or false, it was hers and she was on ...

— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow

... Yawl's onslaught was so sudden that the boy had been unable to draw his machete, and after a desperate bout of tugging and straining, the sailor had got the upper-hand and was now kneeling on Ramon's chest, and feeling ...

— Mr. Fortescue • William Westall

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