abyss
noun
- the primal chaos before Creation.
- the infernal regions; hell.
- a subterranean ocean.
Origin of abyss
Abyss.
Examples from the Web for abyss
Contemporary Examples of abyss
But, Ali warns all that can change quickly if Anbar continues to crumble, “right now, we are looking into the Abyss.”
And my beloved Zimbabwe has sunk from a promising beacon into an abyss of greed and dictatorship.
But when patients open their jaws, he totters on the abyss and gets no steadying hand from God.
And when I made the Abyss, which had a giant wave scene in it, those stopped.
James Cameron on How to Find Flight MH370, Climate Change, Leonardo DiCaprio, and MoreMarlow Stern
April 12, 2014
At one point he fell down a crevasse and was left dangling in the abyss from a rope, up which he dragged his disintegrating body.
Historical Examples of abyss
Kirkwood groaned with despair of his inability to fathom the abyss of his self-contempt.
The Black BagLouis Joseph Vance
Pierre could divine that an abyss was opening, and dared not insist.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
But if one falls, that is no reason to throw oneself in the abyss.
A Comedy of Marriage and Other TalesGuy De Maupassant
Invoke not the unhallowed spirits of the abyss; invoke the spotless synod of the Gods.
ImogenWilliam Godwin
Between this time and that I am now speaking of was an abyss.
The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, CompleteDuc de Saint-Simon