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Definition of Abysms
1. abysm [n] - See also: abysm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abysms
Literary usage of Abysms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays on Astronomy: A Series of Papers on Planets and Meteors, the Sun and by Richard Anthony Proctor (1872)
"But beyond the solar system the thoughts of the student of astronomy should range
until he begins to apprehend to some extent the vastness of those abysms ..."
2. Iconoclasts: A Book of Dramatists: Ibsen, Strindberg, Becque, Hauptmann by James Huneker (1907)
"... Nachtasyl — The Night Refuge is a fair equivalent in English — one realizes,
not without a shudder, that there are depths within depths, abysms beneath ..."
3. Sancti Ambrosii Mediolanensii episcopi, Opera omnia by Ambrose (1836)
"... de<]ua abysms dicit : Non esl in me; ei mare dicit : l\on est mecum? Non dicit
i (cluni. Pion est in me : sed abysms di- di, Honest in me. ..."
4. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1921)
"... sometimes known, oftener unknown, really shape and mould the New World)
adjusting it to Time and Space, You hidden national will lying in your abysms, ..."
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