"abysm" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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        "Hell; the infernal pit; the great deep; the primal chaos."
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        "(archaic, poetic) Hell; the infernal pit; the great deep; the primal chaos."
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          "ref": "1623, Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, III, xiii",
          "text": "The abysm of hell.",
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          "ref": "1946, Mervyn Peake, “The Grotto”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode",
          "text": "Dr. Prunesquallor had circled around Steerpike with his head drawn back so that his cervical vertebrae rested against the near wall of his high collar, and a plumbless abysm yawned between his Adam’s apple and his pearl stud.",
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          "text": "[T]he Shakespearean sonnet doesn't lend itself to a sequential narrative, because the rhymed couplet, without its paired feet trembling at that abysm of time, has to settle instead for the sound of sighing resolution, at regular intervals, over and over, before taking a deep breath and returning usually, for better or worse, to the same subject.",
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        "An abyss; a gulf, a chasm, a very deep hole."
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        "(now chiefly literary) An abyss; a gulf, a chasm, a very deep hole."
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        "Hell; the infernal pit; the great deep; the primal chaos."
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          "text": "[T]he Shakespearean sonnet doesn't lend itself to a sequential narrative, because the rhymed couplet, without its paired feet trembling at that abysm of time, has to settle instead for the sound of sighing resolution, at regular intervals, over and over, before taking a deep breath and returning usually, for better or worse, to the same subject.",
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