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Definition of Inferno

1. Noun. Any place of pain and turmoil. "When you're alone Christmas is the pits"

2. Noun. A very intense and uncontrolled fire.

3. Noun. (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment. "Hell is paved with good intentions"

Definition of Inferno

1. n. The infernal regions; hell. Also used fig.

Definition of Inferno

1. Noun. Hell-like place or situation. ¹

2. Noun. A large fire ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inferno

1. a place that resembles or suggests hell [n -NOS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inferno

inferior wall of orbit inferior wall of tympanic cavity inferiorities inferiority inferiority complex inferiorly inferiors inferiour inferiourity inferiourly

inferiours infernal infernal machine infernal region infernally inferno (current term) infernos inferobranchian inferobranchians inferobranchiata

inferobranchiate inferognathal inferolateral margin inferolateral myocardial infarction inferomedial margin inferrable inferred inferrer inferrers

Literary usage of Inferno

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri (1884)
"If not eternal: Only the angels and the heavenly spheres were created before inferno. The creation of man came later. But from Inf. xxxiv. ..."

2. A Defence of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holy Scriptures Into by William Fulke (1843)
"Qui fuit in inferno vivens, inter mortuos liber. • • * • Porro per cor maris significatur infernus, pro quo in evangelio legimus, In carde terree. ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1907)
"DANTE'S 'inferno' AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY? 1. Time-references in the Divina Commedia. ... The ostensible narrative of the ' inferno' is an account of a journey ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1907)
"Ill—DANTE'S 'inferno' AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY? 1. Time-references in the Divina Commedia ... The ostensible narrative of the ' inferno ' is an account of a journey ..."

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