All 5 Uses of
abyss
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered him from them.†
Chpt 2 *
- He speaks: and His voice is heard even at the farthest limits of space, even In the bottomless abyss.†
Chpt 3
- And through the several torments of the senses the immortal soul is tortured eternally in its very essence amid the leagues upon leagues of glowing fires kindled in the abyss by the offended majesty of the Omnipotent God and fanned into everlasting and ever-increasing fury by the breath of the anger of the God-head.†
Chpt 3
- The yells of the suffering sinners fill the remotest corners of the vast abyss.†
Chpt 3
- …memory enrage, the mind filled with darkness and despair, never to escape; ever to curse and revile the foul demons who gloat fiendishly over the misery of their dupes, never to behold the shining raiment of the blessed spirits; ever to cry out of the abyss of fire to God for an instant, a single instant, of respite from such awful agony, never to receive, even for an instant, God's pardon; ever to suffer, never to enjoy; ever to be damned, never to be saved; ever, never; ever, never.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(abyss) a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit