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Etymology

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Blend of doomsday +‎ date

Noun

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doomsdate (plural doomsdates)

  1. The date of doomsday, or some catastrophic and final event.
    • 1967, Canadian Fisherman, volumes 54-55, page 21:
      Many articles emphasize some given doomsdate in the future. I cannot agree with these calculations.
    • 2011, David A. Levy, James E. Parco, Echoes of Mind: Thinking Deeply about Humanship, page 78:
      The next doomsdate is scheduled for March 21, 2014, when an asteroid will hit the earth.