Tartarean
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Tartarean
1615–25; < Latin Tartare ( us ) of Tartarus ( see -eous) + -an
Example Sentences
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James Joyce's squalid boyhood in Dublin was a princely origin compared with the Tartarean depths of little Mick O'Donovan's life in Cork.
From Time Magazine Archive
Virgil, dismissing Aneas from the Tartarean realm through "the ivory gate by which false dreams and fictitious visions are wont to issue," plainly wrought as a poet on imaginative materials.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
The tyrants, who would have disgraced the society of gods and men, were thrown headlong, by the inexorable Nemesis, into the Tartarean abyss.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Milman, Henry Hart
Then the hugest view of the extent of the universal sphere was that an iron mass would require nine days and nights to plunge from its Olympian height to its Tartarean depth.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
A short distance further, we saw across the plain the ruins of the bath of Agrippa, built by the side of the Tartarean Lake.
From Views a-foot by Taylor, Bayard
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