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Abaddon   Listen
noun
Abaddon  n.  
1.
The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus.
2.
Hell; the bottomless pit. (Poetic) "In all her gates, Abaddon rues Thy bold attempt."





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"Abaddon" Quotes from Famous Books



... hours become Unnaturally hoar with rime, do now From my high nest of penance here proclaim That Pontius and Iscariot by my side Show'd like fair seraphs. On the coals I lay, A vessel full of sin: all hell beneath Made me boil over. Devils pluck'd my sleeve; [5] Abaddon and Asmodeus caught at me. I smote them with the cross; they swarm'd again. In bed like monstrous apes they crush'd my chest: They flapp'd my light out as I read: I saw Their faces grow between me and my book: With ...
— The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Tennyson
... the Speranza, she being then safely anchored some distance up the Bosphorus coast. So, on the fifth morning I set out for the Tophana quay; but a light rain had fallen over-night, and this had re-excited the thin grey smoke resembling quenched steam, which, as from some reeking province of Abaddon, still trickled upward over many a square mile of blackened tract, though of flame I could see no sign. I had not accordingly advanced far over every sort of debris, when I found my eyes watering, my throat ...
— The Purple Cloud • M.P. Shiel
... fall from Heav'n trod down 620 Under his feet: for proof, e're this thou feel'st Thy wound, yet not thy last and deadliest wound By this repulse receiv'd, and hold'st in Hell No triumph; in all her gates Abaddon rues Thy bold attempt; hereafter learn with awe To dread the Son of God: he all unarm'd Shall chase thee with the terror of his voice From thy Demoniac holds, possession foul, Thee and thy Legions, yelling they shall ...
— The Poetical Works of John Milton • John Milton


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