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Definition of abysm in English: abysmnoun əˈbɪz(ə)məˈbɪzəm literary An abyss. the abysm from which nightmares crawl Example sentencesExamples - For its self-referential abysms are only made darker by the thought that Rosemary Squires didn't pour her heart into this song: Irving Berlin did.
- ‘What she offered,’ notes the author, ‘in her most sensual, primitive, uncivilized and, from the standpoint of normal aesthetics, distasteful acts slipped over the brink - and she could take you with her - into the abysms of the sacred.’
- Crystal reached her shaking hand and took it as if it was her last salvation before she falls in the abysm.
Origin Middle English: from Old French abisme, medieval Latin abysmus, alteration of late Latin abyssus 'bottomless pit', the ending being assimilated to the Greek ending -ismos. Rhymes arrivisme, chrism, chrisom, ism, prism, schism Definition of abysm in US English: abysmnounəˈbizəməˈbɪzəm literary the abysm from which nightmares crawl a literary or poetic term for abyss Example sentencesExamples - For its self-referential abysms are only made darker by the thought that Rosemary Squires didn't pour her heart into this song: Irving Berlin did.
- Crystal reached her shaking hand and took it as if it was her last salvation before she falls in the abysm.
- ‘What she offered,’ notes the author, ‘in her most sensual, primitive, uncivilized and, from the standpoint of normal aesthetics, distasteful acts slipped over the brink - and she could take you with her - into the abysms of the sacred.’
Origin Middle English: from Old French abisme, medieval Latin abysmus, alteration of late Latin abyssus ‘bottomless pit’, the ending being assimilated to the Greek ending -ismos. |