Word Finder - abyss

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Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean.

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(frequently figurative) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space.

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Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound.

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Moral depravity; vast intellectual or moral depth.

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An impending catastrophic happening.

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The center of an escutcheon.

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The abyssal zone.

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A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.

She glanced down at the black abyss before them.

He fell into the fathomless abyss.

And how is Earth's ocean abyss similar to a desert island?

On the other hand, if we refuse to accept this identification, and hold that the beast from the abyss is yet to come, any attempt at a strict exegesis of the text plunges us in hopeless difficulties.

This awful abyss is bridged by a rope, and guarded by seal sentinels.

The living Nero was no longer expected to return from the East, but Nero was to be restored to life from the abyss by the dragon, i.e.

Satan is bound 1 and cast into the abyss, and the kingdom of Christ and of the martyrs and faithful confessors established for a thousand years.

Remember when you step into the abyss, carry a parachute.

At the end of the world the devil Ur will swallow up the earth and the other intermediate higher worlds, and thereupon will burst and fall into the abyss of darkness where, along with all the worlds and powers of darkness, he will ultimately cease to be, so that thenceforward the universe will consist of but one everlasting world of light.

In short, this kind of relativity leads straight to what is generally known as the abyss of solipsism."

But, if this were all, the Divine Being would remain an abyss dark even to itself.

Nero was now a demonic monster from the abyss, and the ten kings no longer Parthians but ghostly helpers of Nero.

Every moment they perceived some friend floating around them, for a while, then sinking into the abyss to rise no more.

He terrifies Frodo, but manages to pull himself back from the abyss and dies defending the Hobbits.

As one teacher put it, 'The mind creates the abyss; the heart crosses it. ' From Who Dies?

It took in excess of two full loads of readymixed concrete to fill the abyss.

Victorian thinkers called it the ' great chasm ' or the ' fathomless abyss ' .

The Egyptian records tell that Atum " was alone in the primeval watery abyss " (35 ).

One of the more popular styles of Swiss Army shades is labeled the Swiss Army Abyss.

When you start your own business you step into the abyss where survival will depend upon your selling and social skills, and business start up advice can save you from failure.

From a distance, it looked as if he leapt backwards into the abyss.

These pages document one man's journey through the abyss of religious fascism.

Nietzsche dared to look into the abyss of modern nihilism.

Satan will be cast, along with all those who have been delivered over to him to suffer the pains of hell, into the abyss, where he will henceforward lie powerless.

The Liberal party, however, realized the abyss towards which they were hurrying the country, and united their efforts to come to a constitutional understanding with the king.

Some scholars are of opinion that this writer identified Domitian with the eighth emperor, the Nero redivivus, the beast from the abyss.

For, while the power of Charlemagne's successors was decaying, the papacy itself became involved in the confusion of the party strife of Italy and of the city of Rome, and was plunged in consequence into such an abyss of degradation (the so-called Pornocracy), that it was in danger of forfeiting every shred of its moral authority over Christendom.

It only remained now for the primal man to descend into the abyss and prevent the further increase of the generations of darkness by cutting off their roots; but he could not immediately separate again the elements that had once mingled.

The unpublished treatise of 1640 contained all or nearly all that he had to tell concerning human nature, but was written before the terrible events of the last years had disclosed how men might still be urged by their anti-social passions back into the abyss of anarchy.

Eckhart's Godhead appears in Boehme as the abyss, the eternal nothing, the essenceless quiet ("Ungrund" and "Stille ohne Wesen" are two of Boehme's phrases).

Thus cast down from his pinnacle of greatness into an abyss of shame and misery, there was left to the brilliant master only the life of a monk.

The Scandinavian cosmogonic myth starts from the abyss, Ginnungagap, a chaos of ice, from which, as it thawed, was produced the giant Ymir.

He cursed his inability to communicate with the rest of humanity and considered driving directly to town to seek help, but thoughts of a person trapped in the twisted wreckage, prompted him to strain his eyes in the gathering darkness and search the abyss below.

By contrast, an unlikely spark can also cross the abyss unexpectedly.

Peering over the parapet of the bridge, one saw a deep murky abyss, from which sounds of swiftly flowing water rose.

We are faced with the yawning psychological abyss of patricide.

First he seemed plunged into a bottomless abyss of grief.

He stared down at the dark abyss between Gaia's legs.

Yet even from the highest peak he'll fall into the deepest abyss from where there's no escape.

Thursday should not be an occasion for congratulating ourselves on how far we have come from the moral abyss of National Socialism.

Every moment they per- ceived some friend floating around them for a while -- then sinking into the dread abyss to rise no more.

The Blue Planet takes a journey in to the abyss where there are strange creatures straight out of Alien.

Then the vehicle begins the descent, you feel yourself slipping downwards, falling into the abyss.

With all due respect to Nietzsche, we have looked long into the Abyss, but the Abyss has not looked back into us.

James Callaghan for opposing laws curbing Trade Union power in 1968, as Britain stared into the industrial relations abyss that became the Seventies?

But the threat of terrorism is not the only abyss into which we peer.

The company designed Ed Harris's wedding ring in the movie The Abyss.

The site sells Abyss replica wedding rings.

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He now proceeded to distinguish three moments in God, the first of which is the pure indifference which, in a sense, precedes all existence - the primal basis or abyss, as he calls it, in agreement with Boehme.