About The Word Abyss
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Abyss
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What's The Definition Of Abyss?
[n] a bottomless gulf or pit
Synonyms | Synonyms for Abyss: abysm Related Terms | Find terms related to Abyss: abysm | abyssal zone | arroyo | Bassalia | bathyal zone | benthos | bottom waters | bottomless depths | box canyon | breach | break | canyon | cavity | chap | chasm | check | chimney | chink | cleft | cleuch | clough | col | coulee | couloir | crack | cranny | crater | crevasse | crevice | cut | cwm | deep | deepness | defile | dell | depth | dig | diggings | dike | ditch | donga | draw | excavation | fault | fissure | flaw | flume | fracture | furrow | gap | gape | gash | Gehenna | gorge | groove | ground | gulch | gulf | gully | hades | hole | hollow | incision | inferno | inner space | joint | kloof | leak | mine | moat | netherworld | notch | nullah | ocean bottom | ocean depths | ocean floor | opening | pass | passage | pelagic zone | perdition | pit | profoundness | profundity | quarry | ravine | rent | rift | rime | rupture | scissure | seam | shaft | Sheol | slit | slot | split | the deep | the deep sea | the deeps | the depths | Tophet | trench | underworld | valley | void | wadi | well | workings | yawning abyss See Also | chasm Abyss In Webster's Dictionary \A*byss"\, n. [L. abyssus a bottomless gulf, fr. Gr. ?
bottomless; 'a priv. + ? depth, bottom.]
1. A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence,
any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the
bottomless pit.
Ye powers and spirits of this nethermost abyss.
--Milton.
The throne is darkness, in the abyss of light.
--Dryden.
2. Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth.
The abysses of metaphysical theology. --Macaulay.
In unfathomable abysses of disgrace. --Burke.
3. (Her.) The center of an escutcheon.
Note: This word, in its leading uses, is associated with the
cosmological notions of the Hebrews, having reference
to a supposed illimitable mass of waters from which our
earth sprung, and beneath whose profound depths the
wicked were punished. --Encyc. Brit.
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