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act of God

act of God noun: an unforeseen occurrence beyond one's control, such as a natural disaster.

Noun (1)

act of God (plural acts of God)

  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.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168
    • 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.1997 January 5, Jack Miles, “On a Mission From God”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see act, of, God.

Noun (2) capitalized: Act of God

Act of God (plural Acts of God)

  1. (usually "an") Alternative letter-case form of act of God.
    • 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.

act of God meaning in Tagalog

act of God in Tagalog

unforeseen occurrence
katalagahan ng Bathala, katalagahan ng Diyos

Synonyms of act of God

Forms of act of God

pluralacts of God
alternative formAct of God
pluralActs of God

Questions about act of God

What does act of God mean?
Act of God means an unforeseen occurrence beyond one's control, such as a natural disaster.
What is act of God in Tagalog?
Act of God in Tagalog is katalagahan ng Bathala, katalagahan ng Diyos. See Act of God meaning in Tagalog.
What part of speech is act of God?
Act of God is a noun.
What is the plural of act of God?
The plural of act of God is acts of God.

Words near act of God in the dictionary

  1. act curtains
  2. act of adjournal
  3. act of Congress
  4. act of darkness
  5. act of faith
  6. act of God
  7. act of independent significance
  8. act of parliament
  9. Act of Parliament clock
  10. Act of Parliament clocks
  11. act of sederunt

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