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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 526 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FLOOD (in O. Eng. flod, a word
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common to
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Teutonic
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languages, cf. Ger. Flut, Dutch vloed, from the same
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root as is seen in " flow," "
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float ") , an overflow of
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water, an expanse of water submerging
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land,a
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deluge, hence " the
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flood," specifically, the Noachian deluge of
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Genesis, but also any other catastrophic submersion recorded in the
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mythology of other nations than the
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Hebrew (see DELUGE, THE) .

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