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‖ inferno|ɪnˈfɜːnəʊ| [It. inferno:—late L. infernus hell (Ambrose).] Hell; a place of torment or misery compared to hell; a place likened in some respect to the Inferno of Dante's Divine Comedy.
1834Medwin Angler in Wales I. 24 The passage to what some, who attribute to Byron a cloven foot, might call his inferno. 1839Carlyle Chartism iv. (1858) 23 This black unluminous unheeded Inferno and Prisonhouse of souls in pain. 1889Ruskin Præterita III. i. 27 Rossetti..was really not an Englishman, but a great Italian tormented in the Inferno of London. |