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A Latin phrase meaning 'the Year of Disaster'. This can also be interpreted literally as 'the horrible year' or 'a horrible year'. However, the solemnity surrounding the common use of this phase, in conjunction with the inflection typically given it, implies the definitive nature of the year. That is, Annus Horribilis is the worst year, the year of horror, disaster, and calamity. This distinction is with respect to the speaker's own experience. That is the worst year of one's life imaginable. In general, people die or suffer fates worse than death.
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