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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Abyss \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
abyss
n : a bottomless gulf or pit [syn: {abysm}]
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