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Definition
a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen — often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
- You have not helped her to find the way of truth, my dear sir, but have thrust her into an abyss of deceit and misery.Book Five — 1806-07 (9% in)
- A thousand times during that month and a half while he felt himself drawn nearer and nearer to that dreadful abyss, Pierre said to himself: "What am I doing?Book Three — 1805 (9% in)
- All I say is that it is not argument that convinces me of the necessity of a future life, but this: when you go hand in hand with someone and all at once that person vanishes there, into nowhere, and you yourself are left facing that abyss, and look in.Book Five — 1806-07 (59% in)
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