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- adjective
abysmal ; like anabyss
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Examples
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Out of the depths the storms abysmic waves, who knows whence?
As Consequent, Etc 1900
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But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its affinities in literature or human society, and the soul resents the keenest mere intellection, they will not be sought for.
Emersons Books, (the Shadows of Them). Notes Left Over 1892
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His words at times bubble forth with abysmic inspiration.
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Let us hope there is (indeed, can there be any doubt there is?) this great unconscious and abysmic second will also running through the average nationality and career of America.
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Let us hope there is, (Indeed, can there be any doubt there is?) this great, unconscious and abysmic second will also, running through the average Nationality and career of America.
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His words at times bubble forth with abysmic inspiration.
Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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Out of the depths the storm's abysmic waves, who knows whence?
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855
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Let us hope there is (indeed, can there be any doubt there is?) this great unconscious and abysmic second will also running through the average nationality and career of America.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its affinities in literature or human society, and the soul resents the keenest mere intellection, they will not be sought for.
Notes Left Over ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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Let us hope there is (indeed, can there be any doubt there is?) this great unconscious and abysmic second will also running through the average nationality and career of America.
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