decreationn.
/diːkriːˈeɪʃən/ The undoing of creation; depriving of existence; annihilation.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > utter destruction or annihilation
anientizement1429
deletiona1513
extincting1513
annihilment1526
exterminion1528
nulling1538
annihilation1541
exterminationc1550
nullity1555
annihilating1577
massacre1595
extinguishment1599
extinct1606
expunction1615
extinction1615
discreationa1628
nullificationa1631
nullifying1640
decreation1647
defacedness1668
extinguishinga1676
erasurea1794
exterminating1796
blotting out1808
naughting1913
wipeout1968
1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 47 As he is a creature, hee feares decreation.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 45 More Reasonable..than the Continual Decreation and Annihilation of the Souls of Brutes.
1918 P. T. Forsyth This Life & Next x. 97 It is creation not out of a chaos but a wreck. It is the recreation of a decreation.
a1930 D. H. Lawrence Pornogr. & So On (1936) 26 The excrementory flow is towards dissolution, de-creation, if we may use such a word.
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