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单词 gehenne
释义

gehennen.

Forms: Also Middle English gehyne.
Etymology: < French gehenne, < ecclesiastical Latin gehenna : see gehenna n. The word was early confused with gehine confession, examination of accused persons by torture (modern French gêne discomfort), whence the form in quot. 1481 at sense a.
Obsolete. rare.
a. A hell, place of torment.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun]
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Hades1597
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other place1604
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subterrenea1711
diablerie1776
inferno1834
ballyhooly1837
nether region1839
Sam Hill1839
Ballyhack1843
tunket1871
bogydom1880
1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. xviii. 107 Thise ben the terryble gehynes stynkynge And there is the fyre so ouer moche ardaunt.
b. Judicial torture.
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society > authority > punishment > torture > [noun] > judicial
painc1300
questiona1538
gehenne1646
1646 G. Buck Hist. Life Richard III iii. 93 The fame was the Question or Gehenne[Note: Rack] was given Him [sc. Perkin].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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